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Word: sandemar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Each is lucidly articulate about his views. Old Road-Dust insists: "Everything is always what it is able to be and never otherwise . . . He who knows the world takes it as it is when it is at its blindest, not as it is when it is seeing most clearly." Sandemar, a world-roaming aristocrat among tramps, carries a slate on which he writes and then wipes out his thoughts. Why? "I'll tell you-because we have found nothing. We merely find that it is possible to say almost anything. But afterward we strike out by degrees everything that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beyond the Next Bend | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

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