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  1. There's Wyndham Lewis fuming out of sight, That lonely old volcano of the Right.
  2. Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. H…
  3. The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit…
  4. The puritanic potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion…
  5. The earth has become one big village, with telephones laid on from one end to the other, and air transport, both speedy and safe.
  6. I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged, and rather sardonic, lion, i…
  7. The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard o…
  8. 1. Laughter is the Wild Body's song of triumph. 2. Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously. …

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