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...talent of Mr. Bontemps is considerable. He has the authentic skill of the novelist in choosing a theme likely to interest readers, in telling a story not in propria persona but through the words and actions of characters; in fact he has every gift to commend him to the reader's respect except greatness. The lack of that quality in Mr. Bontemps is serious, for he has chosen for the motif of his novel the events of a slave insurrection in Virginia in 1800, and such a theme requires greatness. It is beside the point that greatness is still...
Sometimes the masculine author of this masculine book speaks in propria persona: "Historically the increasing dominance of woman is marked by emotionalism and revolution, romanticism, feminism triumphant, hysteria. The end is either a return to the balance, a reaction where the man reasserts his authority in the family, or anarchy. The paternal state, which tries to be Our-father-which-art-on-earth, is always accompanied by the loss of the subtle qualities of fatherhood in individual men. When patriotism becomes matriotism, nature and force reassert themselves in human affairs. Sympathy has been mistaken for the truth...
...quidem doleo,' oculis respondeo lacrimantibus, 'iter longissimum confeci, defessissimus sum, quoeam nescio. Nihilo secius portas reclude, ut interiora Paradisi saltem aspectare possim.' Portis patefactis interiora tota magnificentissima video, et mirabile dictu! in medio Paradiso Doctorem B. conspicor. 'Quid ita, Petre Sancte,' stupefactus exclamo, 'ibi est Doctor B. ipsum, in propria persona video.' 'Doctor B.? ubi?' Petrus, pariter admiratus, exclamat, 'Ibi, ibi! nonne vides?' 'Huncce?' exclamat Petrus, tollens cachinnum, 'Aha! iste non est medicus...
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