Word: unhuman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...graduate and undergraduate classes in English to read his labyrinthian fiction in a soft, gentle voice slurred slightly by a Mississippi accent. Then he politely answered questions about such matters as the murky origins of his stories. He told of drinking corn likker for breakfast with "those unhuman people who live between the Mississippi and the levee." He once frankly admitted that his writing methods were often haphazard because "when the characters come alive, all the writer has to do is jog along with his notebook and record what they...
...publicity he delighted in. His great age was his last great turn, which could hardly conceal an appalling loneliness. All his contemporaries were dead. His wife had gone. He recognized how poor his contacts with human beings were, now he was without intermediaries. He was, in a sense, unhuman. He depended on servants whom he hardly knew. He came close at times to that terrible condition of the old in contemporary England, who discover that there is no one to depend on and for whom the mere mechanics of living have become tragically difficult. At the illness of a servant...