How many books is too many? -- The truth about Wilson -- Tom Sawyer -- How to become a romantic -- Sherlock Holmes, the flawed superman -- Science, and nihilism -- Jeffery Farnol and high adventure -- On keeping a diary -- Faust and "absurd good news" -- Sex and the eternal feminine -- Plato and the sexual illusion -- Shaw -- Eliot and the python's tail -- Joyce -- Escape from personality, : the puzzle of Ernest Hemingway -- David Lindsay and A voyage to Arcturus -- Dostoevsky -- Nietzsche -- the James brothers -- Erst Cassirer -- Sartre -- Huysmans: the ultimate decadent -- Zola and Maupassant -- Leonid Andreyev -- Mikhail Artsybashev -- Anatole France -- Afterword: the seventh degree of concentration.
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