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Word: piffler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1964-1964
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What is left when the scenery stops falling? Well, the book can be seen to be an enormous, lavender metaphor: Leonard is soul, Victor is body, opposed in unnatural self-division. The most pompous piffler since Colin Wilson takes 376 pages to plumb this irrelevancy to its wuthering depths. One vote for Mailer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wuthering Depths | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

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