Word: locksley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alfred Lord Tennyson's Locksley Pall...
...seeing through" the eternal moil of creatures struggling to exist, acquire, mate and reproduce. He "sees through" to the essential, motile miracle of living?or something like that; neither he nor Miss Gale can quite express it. His wife sends for an alienist. He rushes off to Alia Locksley, the waiting one, hoping she will understand his prodigious discovery. But she is only sex-hungry. She sends for the same alienist. So Bernard Mead returns to Pauquette, grimly reflecting that he has a few years left in which to study out his new transcendental existence alone...