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A Most Extended Crush
Jones, Ernest | November 6, 1948 issue

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This article presents information about the book "Answer to Question 33," by Christopher Sykes. Mr. Sykes never falls into the most tiresome error of writers of semi-autobiographical novels, the assumption that the single reporting of the odd and the esoteric make significant fiction. Mr. Sykes sees quite clearly that although long-drawn-out and one-sided passions are often part of the human lot, they are debilitating and likely to be somewhat absurd. The nervous awareness of one's own absurdity, is the ruin of the novel, springing as it does from an emotional timidity, a painful constriction of the feelings, almost a dehumanization.

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ECCENTRICS & eccentricities; ANSWER to Question 33 (Book); SYKES, Christopher; ABSURD (Philosophy); COMMUNISTS; FICTION
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