Category: Humour
Biography fails, like psychology, because it so often mistakes complexity for illumination. Its aim is to present a complete picture of a man; its effect is usually to make an impenetrable mystery of him. The cause of this, it seems to me, lies in the fact that the biographer...
Biography fails, like psychology, because it so often mistakes complexity for illumination. Its aim is to present a complete picture of a man; its effect is usually to make an i...
2. Part 2He likes chop suey, spaghetti, French pastry, horseradish sauce, Welsh rarebits, oysters _à la Dumas_, raw tomatoes, stuffed baked potatoes, green peppers, broiled lobster, hali...
3. Part 3He believes, with Nathan, that the three best stories printed in _The Smart Set_ under their joint editorial direction have been “The Exiles’ Club,” by Dunsany; “Ashes to Ashes,...