A Man Divided

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Olaf Stapledon. A Man Divided

A Man Divided

Table of Contents

1 - A WEDDING FIASCO

2 - VICTOR'S EARLY LIFE

From 1890 to 1912

3 - BEGINNINGS OF OUR FRIENDSHIP

From 1908 to 1912

4 - BUSINESS MAN AND SOLDIER

From 1912 to 1919

5 - NEW START

From 1921 to 1924

6 - MAGGIE'S EARLY LIFE

From 1897 to 1921

7 - UNCERTAIN HAPPINESS

From 1921 to 1924

8 - A DISTRESSING INTERLUDE

From 1923 to 1924

9 - VICTOR FORGES AHEAD

From 1924 to 1929

10 - CHECK

From 1929 to 1939

11 - GLOOM

From 1939 to 1946

12 - STRANGE TRIUMPH

From 1946 to 1948

THE END

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Olaf Stapledon

Published by Good Press, 2021

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"It began," he said, "after that bump supper, when some of us, all a bit tight, invaded your room. Instead of taking it lying down, you had the cheek to make a fuss, so we began chucking things out of the window into the quad. You actually put up a fight, which was surprising and amusing, because we had always regarded you as a worm. You had come from some bloody little unheard-of grammar school, and you had an accent like the mud on a provincial street. We weren't going to stand cheek from that sort. No doubt you remember, when you were being I held down, I stared at you as offensively as I could, and said you reminded me of my hosier. It was then that I came awake. It was your pinched little face that did it. Instead of seeing you as just a type, and a despised type, I suddenly saw you, as I had seen Johnson minor. Somehow I saw you being torn between contempt for us all and irrational envy and self-abasement. And I saw how horribly hurt you were, not simply by our brutality but by your own involuntary treason to yourself."

Interrupting Victor, I said, "I can distinctly remember how your face suddenly changed. Your eyes opened wide with surprise, and your mouth too. Then you turned away with an odd, awkward little laugh. You picked up a book, and sat on the arm of the easy chair, apparently reading."

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