From: word_chemist@hotmail.com   
      
   "Martha Bridegam"  wrote in message   
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   > Don't know why I expected something different. Selene's   
   > recommendation probably.   
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   > /M   
      
   My best bit of feedback came in a synch that occurred the day after I'd   
   finished it. I'd just come out of the post office where I'd posted off   
   several applications for jobs - two of which were in factories (hey, i'll be   
   authentic again soon and then you can pity Cosmic Funk instead of sneering   
   at it) - went in a junk shop and found a hardback, dust-jacketed copy of The   
   Collected Prose of Wyndham Lewis. A snip a 2.99 - in Charing Cross Rd it   
   would have 15 quid. So I take it off the shelf and open it at random. The   
   first thing I read was a section of the editor's introduction to 'Paleface':   
      
    'Throughout his life he was concerned at the dilution of civilised values,   
   though he was no blind worshipper of tradition. The tendency to enthuse over   
   the savage, the primitive, or the coloured races, simply by virtue of their   
   supposed 'nearness' to nature, seemed to him symptomatic of a decadent   
   sentimentalism; and the history of sentiment, he remarked, 'is one of the   
   survival of words, after the fact they symbolize has long vanished.'   
      
   Interesting, I thought; even If take issue with some of it.   
      
   ROBBIE   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)