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Word: rampion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1932-1932
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...then the flippant or common things after. Mrs. Garnett says I have no true nobility?with all my cleverness and charm. But that is not true. It is there, in spite of all the littlenesses and commonnesses." Readers of Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point who recognized "Mark Rampion" as a sympathetic portrait of Lawrence may have wondered how Lawrence liked it. He wrote to Huxley: "Your Rampion is the most boring character in the book?a gasbag. Your attempt at intellectual sympathy!?It's all rather disgusting, and I feel like a badger that has its hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Leif the Lucky to Lincoln | 10/10/1932 | See Source »

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