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…inent for me to tell you anything about him. So that we can consider the lecture at an end, and (after the usual vote of thanks) pass on immediately to the discussion, which I think ought to be more amusing, if scarcely as informative.
1930 · PDF PAGE 15
…ntle- man was writing all get sexually excited by pictures of young women, and also by any statement about large sums of money. For they immediately have a wish phantasmif they had large sums themselves, what terrible fellows they could be. In the Middle Ages, the art of exciting the people was not very different. The Jew had always an immense hoard of ill-gotten wealth, and of course every penny that was exacted by Reginald Front-de- Boeuf was laid to the Jews account. But there was another treasure that the peasant was afraid to lose, the d…
1930 · PDF PAGE 17
… on rifled graves. Southey was an ambitious man. He was not content with the brilliant success of this masterpeice of the poetic art. He immediately sat down and wrote another alleged poem all about infants fat and rifled graves and the Devil coming for the villain at the proper moment. This poem has nothing to do with witchcraft. It is called The Surgeons Warning. I think this is the best evidence in support of my thesiswhatever that is, I am not quite sure that it is possible to adduce. In the minds of the kind of people who believe in…
1930 · PDF PAGE 14
…s pro- duced out of nowhere for a definite purpose ; and, as the French say, does not rime with anything. If it did, of course, it would immediately be exposed as nonsense. It is satisfied that nobody can disprove it any more than they can prove it. Take a concrete example. A nice young gentle- man the other day wanted (very properly) to earn his living, and not being peculiarly endowed by Nature in the matter of original invention, he thought he might make a story out of the idea of a Suicide Club. In this he was evidently correct. Robert Loui…