Oh yes how effin dare i use this affectionate form... his first wife used it. alexandra --- the only one he had true intrinsic connection with which transcended flesh ---
i didn't know about the three suicide attempts. or was it four? lying between the railroad tracks? thought i remembered it as a bet...
"his enemies regarded him as a mature and malignant satan when he was actually a kind of brilliant, bewildered schoolboy, craving affection"
"given a stronger constitution, a more searching temper, he could easily have become gteater than dostoevsky. the temperament was there but not the strength, the perception bu not the will. he remains perhaps the most interesting artistic failure of our century"
and there you have it. failure? his writing was magical. who cares if it had anything to do with reality? is magic alone not worth anything?
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all quotes from: The strength to dream: literature and the imagination
By Colin Wilson
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