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Kaleidoscope

L. L. | October 19, 1921 issue

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The article discusses the book "Erik Dorn," by Ben Hecht. The book has "the effect of a gaudy and fantastic panorama, in which the movement is almost acrobatic." Hecht affects a sort of telegraphic Meredithianism which in the end renders neither nature nor human experience but only its own vain torment. Where the ideas cease to be perfectly real in themselves, however subjective or subtle, words no longer function but become mere "bombinations" of nervous sound.

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ERIK Dorn (Book); HECHT, Ben; NATURE; SOUND; IDEA (Philosophy); PANORAMAS
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