Word: proust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Have just read "Criminal Glands" in your Feb. 17 issue. Recall another article about bulldogs suffering from undersecretion of pituitary in a former issue. Why not let your gullible readers know why Nero fiddled while Rome burned, why one of Proust's characters got a kick while another spit on her grandfather's picture, and of course why "Alvy Siawaski Suffers?" Then you could have some doctor work out statistics on why ''lovely lady stoops to folly" and graduate into a metaphysical aspect and prove that we are all foreordained...
...from Paris). "This circumstance was not favorable to the immediate success of the book." Author Bloch read the proofs of "-& Co." while in a hospital recovering from wounds. In 1925 he revised it; the English translation was made from this edition by C. K. Scott Moncrieff, translator of Marcel Proust's famed Remembrance of Things Past. Author Bloch lives in the country most of the year, likes to move about: on bicycles, motorcycles, automobiles, canal barges, his own feet. Catholic in his tastes, he likes opposites: society & solitude, struggle & peace, traveling & tranquillity. Says he: "I dislike work...