Books and BipedsArgus Books, 1947 - 258 pages "In a word, 'Books and Bipeds' is for the most part a selection of paragraphs from my weekly book column in the "Chicago Sunday Tribune'..." -- foreword. |
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Page 54
... Death , according to Plato , is the safest one . But death , as even Aldous Huxley agrees , is a slightly final sort of remedy ; few of us look for- ward to it with pleasure . And drink , as a surrogate for death , adds ultimately only ...
... Death , according to Plato , is the safest one . But death , as even Aldous Huxley agrees , is a slightly final sort of remedy ; few of us look for- ward to it with pleasure . And drink , as a surrogate for death , adds ultimately only ...
Page 108
... death in the destruc- tion of his house and shop ; and thereafter , for a number of weeks , a reign of terror descended on the city . The police were baffled and driven frantic by a succession of mysterious murders , as day after day ...
... death in the destruc- tion of his house and shop ; and thereafter , for a number of weeks , a reign of terror descended on the city . The police were baffled and driven frantic by a succession of mysterious murders , as day after day ...
Page 119
... death . It is simpler to say that temperamentally he was endowed to carry on the Poe tradition and did so , with single - minded devotion and artistic integrity , for a quarter of a century ; then he died , aged forty- seven , and ...
... death . It is simpler to say that temperamentally he was endowed to carry on the Poe tradition and did so , with single - minded devotion and artistic integrity , for a quarter of a century ; then he died , aged forty- seven , and ...
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