The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 92, Issue 8Herrick & Noyes, 1927 |
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Page 276
... Paul meandered along the gravel paths . Here was a fiend's apothecary shop . Macabre potions and baleful doses lurked in every one of these flushed , fragile plants . He let his imaginations and his desires improvise on this theme . He ...
... Paul meandered along the gravel paths . Here was a fiend's apothecary shop . Macabre potions and baleful doses lurked in every one of these flushed , fragile plants . He let his imaginations and his desires improvise on this theme . He ...
Page 277
... Paul , was the extra man . Not that it was planned that way . With the exception of Karl and Alice the relationships just happened . The two other girls had naturally picked the two other men . His attentions weren't even solicited . It ...
... Paul , was the extra man . Not that it was planned that way . With the exception of Karl and Alice the relationships just happened . The two other girls had naturally picked the two other men . His attentions weren't even solicited . It ...
Page 279
... Paul . What you say about De Gourmont's having something of the woman in him seems to me to be- " " Oh , I'm sure he has , I think all the greatest novelists and poets have . It's essential - they must be spiritually hermaphroditic ...
... Paul . What you say about De Gourmont's having something of the woman in him seems to me to be- " " Oh , I'm sure he has , I think all the greatest novelists and poets have . It's essential - they must be spiritually hermaphroditic ...
Page 280
... Paul ? " " I'm sorry , I haven't . But I'll probably do something before I leave . " " I wish you'd let me see it . It's wonderful to think that there's an artistic person in the family . I've always believed that I was the only one who ...
... Paul ? " " I'm sorry , I haven't . But I'll probably do something before I leave . " " I wish you'd let me see it . It's wonderful to think that there's an artistic person in the family . I've always believed that I was the only one who ...
Page 282
... Paul . I suppose I'm a self - conscious schemer who spreads her nets for men . " " Oh no , my dear . Not at all - artistry is a thing to be proud of , and when more so than when it's applied to oneself ? It hasn't anything to do with ...
... Paul . I suppose I'm a self - conscious schemer who spreads her nets for men . " " Oh no , my dear . Not at all - artistry is a thing to be proud of , and when more so than when it's applied to oneself ? It hasn't anything to do with ...
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Page 268 - The story is beautifully designed, and it moves with the inevitability of a fugue. It is packed with observation, all fresh, all shrewd, all sound. There is gargantuan humor in it, and there is also something not far from moving drama. It is American from the first low cackle of the prologue to the last gigantic obscenity — as American as goose-stepping or the mean admiration of mean things.
Page 274 - The saint at every window Was a sentinel in arms. They might have checked the water Which can seep through any stone, Or held at bay the mildew Which will permeate the bone.
Page 254 - She was shocked and her hands trembled so that she could hardly manage the plates. "How could they act this way?