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Excerpt: "I have strung these things together on a slight enough thread; but as the things themselves are slight, it is possible that the thread (and the metaphor) may manage to hang together. These notes range over very variegated topics and in many cases were made at very different times. They concern all sorts of things from lady barristers to cave-men, and from psycho-analysis to free verse. Yet they have this amount of unity in their wandering, that they all imply that it is only a more traditional spirit that is truly able to wander. The wild theorists of our time are quite unable to wander. When they talk of making new roads, they are only making new ruts. Each of them is necessarily imprisoned in his own curious cosmos; in other words, he is limited by the very largeness of his own generalization. The explanations of the Marxian must not go outside economics; and the student of Freud is forbidden to forget sex. To see only the fanciful side of these serious sects may seem a very frivolous pleasure; and I will not dispute that these are very frivolous criticisms. I only submit that this frivolity is the last lingering form of freedom."
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GenreBiography and Memoir
Length6 hrs 51 mins
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Publish dateJul 31, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1INTRODUCTION
17The Sentimentalism of Divorce
2The Romance of Rhyme
18Street Cries and Stretching the Law
3Hamlet and the Psycho-Analyst
19The Revolt of the Spoilt Child
4The Meaning of Mock Turkey
20The Innocence of the Criminal
5Shakespeare and the Legal Lady
21The Prudery of the Feminists
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6On Being an Old Bean
22How Mad Laws are Made
7The Fear of the Film
23The Pagoda of Progress
8Wings and the Housemaid
24The Myth of the “Mayflower”
9The Slavery of Free Verse
25Much Too Modern History
10Prohibition and the Press
26The Evolution of Slaves
11The Mercy of Mr. Arnold Bennett
27Is Darwin Dead?
12A Defence of Dramatic Unities
28Turning Inside Out
13The Boredom of Butterflies
29Strikes and the Spirit of Wonder
14The Terror of a Toy
30A Note on Old Nonsense
15False Theory and the Theatre
31Milton and Merry England
16The Secret Society of Mankind
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