Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Flies on a black, dangling Thing...
...particularly with a violet, snow-powdered December twilight in old Madison Square, which once was "like an open-air drawing room." What the work represents spiritually, no reader will soon show another, save that the tragedy of a strong, restrained nature, devoid of falsity or baseness, is a moving thing to watch, to experience...
...begging friar. He did not lead armies, as did Mohammed. He did not confute wise men, nor die an eternal death upon the Cross, as did Christ. Instead he spent nearly his whole life tending the ritual of the Goddess Kali at her temple on the Ganges. Strangest thing of all for a Messiah, he deliberately avoided founding a cult. Instead he urged all who came to him to follow that which they preferred or to which they were born. "God," said he, "is the one flame; eyes of men see it in different colors...
...author seems to take an obscure pride in telling things that other people would have been careful to leave unsaid. He is almost proud of the small slips from grace that filled his boyhood; the tone of the whole thing reminds one of Jean Jacques' "Confessions," Jess startling, of course, but put together with the same intentional candor...
...chapters, endeavoring to find out what it's all about. She does and she doesn't. The three children are Dick, Tom, Madge. Reading from left to right they are a D. S. O., a "conchy,' and a V. A. D., a fairly representative crib of the sort of thing one could or could not do back...