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...novels of Henry de Montherlant are characterized by a strange air of scatterbrained earnestness. One of the wittiest of modern French writers, he gets his effects, like an accomplished sleight-of-hand artist, by looking in the wrong direction, delivering little sermons about this and that, suddenly popping out with his tricks already worked. Because of this stealthy way of sneaking up on a story, his characters sometimes seem less like human beings than like rabbits pulled out of a hat, blinking uncomfortably at their sudden appearance...
...boys ... a pretty well-founded conviction that I was asleep." He went to art school, suffered a period of religious despair and moral confusion before he emerged as a Catholic, an optimist, a poet, a radical, an art critic, and lecturer with a reputation as one of the wittiest men of his time...
Though mine will undoubtedly be only one of many slightly admonitory responses to your article, it occurred to me that you might be interested to hear of a delightful, homely incident pertaining to the addition of one of the wittiest, simplest, most lovable of men to our mildly insane faculty...
...like the beer-suits and freshman skull caps; it is a ritual which time has enhanced and which offers splendid opportunities for a mass attack upon some hapless individual who can neither foresee nor alter his lot once he has been chosen "best dressed" or named, "thinks he is wittiest". These brands of favour are eagerly reprinted in the metropolitan papers; only to be hauled forth and brought to light years later when the recipient is a candidate for the Presidency or the Chairmanship of a mighty concern...
...background is American, the Doktor functions, with great strain and effort, as the Nazi Party's spokesman to the English-speaking press. His troubles arise chiefly because journalists whom he trustfully presents to his friend Adolf so often write unflattering articles. In his way perhaps the wittiest...