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Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes

Book by Djuna Barnes · 6 quotes · Littles, Men, Block

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“Madness to us means reversion; to such people as Una and Lena it meant progression. Now their uncle had entered into a land beyond them, the land of fancy. For fifty years he had been as they were, silent, hard-working, unimaginative. Then all of a sudden, like a scholar passing his degree, he had gone up into another form.”