In the winter of 1852, the Alta California newspaper reported that “there has never been so deplorable an exhibition of mendicancy in our streets as may be witnessed daily at this time ...”
unswayed by the meretriciousness of the entertainment world (with the possible exception of Haim)
of PTA
Yet such hermeneutic fertility is nevertheless ironic in view of James’s Wittgensteinian claim — voiced in the same preface — that the critic’s business is merely to ‘point out’ a novel’s significant features and leave it at that.
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There were some carping notices, and I’ll admit I was fractious enough to be on the side of the “refuseniks.”
