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A Psychogenic Goodness
Blackmur, R. P. | January 30, 1935 issue

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This article presents information about the novel "Heaven's My Destination," by Thornton Wilder. Wilder has chosen, quite rightly for certainty of immediate effect and interest, to represent his theme in terms of humorous incident. The sense of reality is secured by showing, with the heightening power of humor, the reaction of "normal" people to a personality they take to be absurd. There are two difficulties which interfere with Wilder's complete initial assent. There is the difficulty of Christianity and there is the difficulty of the limit of the form of Mr. Wilder's imagination.

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HEAVEN'S My Destination (Book); WILDER, Thornton, 1897-1975; WIT & humor; CHRISTIANITY; BELIEF & doubt; FICTION
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