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Lawton Mackall. Bizarre

Bizarre

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PREFACE

Minims

Jangles

WHAT-NOTS

UNSOLICITED PERSONAL ADORNMENTS

SHELF CULTURE

PORTABLE PIGEONHOLES

SIMILE

THE BEATIFIED RACE

JOUEZ BALLE!

THE ART OF PACKING

AGRICULTURE INDOORS

SNOWY BOSOMS

INTERIOR DESPERATION

THE WRITING ON THE SCREEN

MUSIQUE GLACÉE

THE CARE OF THE HUSBAND

TERMINOLOGY OF TARDINESS

OPPRESSORS OF THE MEEK

PUTTING PEDAGOGY ACROSS

COACHING FROM THE SIDE-LINES

FAST AND LOOSE

THE PRIMROSE PATHOLOGY

FIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD

ENLIGHTENMENT

HOLIDAY MISGIVINGS

ALL, ALL ARE GONE, THE OLD FAMILIAR FAÇADES

MY MUSEUM

ON CHAIRS--AND OFF

MINIMS

THE NIGHT OF THE FLEECE

BLACK JITNEY

LIGHT BREAKFAST

THE MAN OPPOSITE

LUCY THE LITERARY AGENT

THE CREEPING FINGERS

THE MAN WITH THE HOSE

JANGLES

THOSE SYMPHONY CONCERT PROGRAMS

HOW TO KNOW THE INSTRUMENTS

NOTES ON PIANOS

THE LIFE-DRAMA OF A MUSICAL CRITIC

THE SURVIVAL OF THE FATTEST

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Lawton Mackall

Published by Good Press, 2021

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It is wrong to assert that our fiction magazines have lost their power to inspire, to uplift. High romance and whole-hearted cheerfulness have not deserted them. These qualities have merely migrated to the advertising pages. The morbid, unpleasant fiction is only a short interlude between the innocent joys of Nabiscos and fireless cookers, and the wholesomeness of Mellin's Food. After sin and adulteration comes 99-44/100 per cent pure.

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