the period or state of being a novice, especially…
Writing on the Wall
by
Mary McCarthy
May 25, 2025 - May 26, 2025
(literary-criticism)
McCarthy, M. (1970). Writing on the Wall. Harcourt Brace & World.
p.161
novitiate »
p.66
paeans »
songs of praise or triumph; things that expresses…
p.12
sententia »
a brief moral saying taken from ancient or popula…
p.169
If he is entitled to be called “the conscience of…
p.168
Possibly Blair-Orwell was corrected too often in …
p.165
Though aware of the impossibility of it, he would…
p.163
He hated intellectuals, pansies, and “rich swine,…
p.158
It is as though, once he had resigned from the In…
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General Macbeth
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A Bolt from the Blue
on Nabokov's Pale Fire. this made me realize that the narrator may indeed be the escaped lunatic lol
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A Bolt from the Blue
on Nabokov's Pale Fire. this made me realize that the narrator may indeed be the escaped lunatic lol
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Burroughs’ Naked Lunch
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The Hue and Cry
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On Madame Bovary
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Crushing a Butterfly
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Everybody’s Childhood
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More on Compton-Burnett
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The Writing on the Wall
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Hanging by a Thread
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