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I have read "Lillith" at a single sitting, and it was certainly a fine experience. Apart from the mood of the whole (which is of supreme importance) there must be no less than one hundred lines that are as bewitching as any in the Language. Some, such as:
"The foam of granite and the dust of seas",
are good enough for that shaggy old God of them all — Aeschylus!
As I read, I feared, at first, that you were going to glorify a sort of cynical hedonism — that you might be about
I'm for Tancred! He had been there and knew all about it, and didn't want to go back. He is no Sunday School chap. He just knows at last that all values are social values, & that individualism is impossible.
You have hit it right, Old Man; and I'm devilish proud to think that I may have had something to do with the undertaking of the task. I shall have the MS bound; & when I am old & garrulous, I'll get it out now & then, show it to my grandchildren, and brag as old men may without too much
Will Robertson publish the book in the Fall?
P. S. When I say "individualism" I mean it in the universal sense.
Raoul is still seeking the values he understands — the lower, individualistic values. Tancred achieves a life-philosophy, that is, finds his place in the cosmos — the supreme achievement.