TECHNIQUE OF THE 5 APES 5

And by "The Apes" I mean Wyndham Lewis' volume "The Apes of God", returning to which enormous "werk" or if you like "enslaught" after a period of contemplation and trying to place it both in relation to Lewis' major contemporaries and to the development of the novel "at large". It is observed that Mr Joye fancies himself as a conediegrapher, and until recently it has been usual to say or suppose that Mr Eliot alone among us possessed a true sense of tragedy. In Eliot has been observed to be oppressed by tragedy apparently unable to shake off this feeling of "hollowness" etc. proclaimed in his titles. We might therefore distinguish between a sense of tragedy permeating the whole or most of all one's writing and the capacity for presenting tragedy at a given place in a written composition.

What people may have taken for burlesque in Lewis' volume, and what is certainly farce in the vast long chapter on Lord Osmond's party so gives the note to the volume that perhaps the hasty reader is swept through the final crash scene thinking this else is funny. In which case he might prefer it. Certainly not ending in a whimper. It comes as the crash of an epoch.

No real ones, among apes/ Preust the hyperbole, the Uraffe/ only present insein's nemesis.