# The Sardonic Arm

Author: Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1893-1954

Genre: Category: Poetry

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60114

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Sardonic+Arm+Bodenheim&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

_If I yield to the remorseful redundancy of a foreword, with its bedraggled battalions of fiercely insinuating words, it is from no mere desire to invite the ridicule of impatient time, or to rail against that host of vacant insincerities which betrays the animations of life. It may be that I do not look upon words as intimidating a fixed content, or beckoning to an inevitable style. It may be that I regard words as flexible lures seducing the essential emptiness of life, with little, false promises--promises of emotional and mental gain and reward; haloes and bludgeons with which a void may attain the mirage of toiling or dancing importance. And perhaps, in the desperate hope of achievin...

## Chapters

- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sardonic-arm-60114/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sardonic-arm-60114/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sardonic-arm-60114/chapters/3/index.md)