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Wyndham Lewis. The Wild Body. A Soldier of Humour and Other Stories
The Wild Body. A Soldier of Humour and Other Stories
Table of Contents
PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. BY. QUINN & BODEN COMPANY, INC. RAHWAY, N. J
FOREWORD
A SOLDIER OF HUMOUR. BEAU SEJOUR. BESTRE. THE CORNAC AND HIS WIFE. THE DEATH OF THE ANKOU. FRANCISCAN ADVENTURES. BROTCOTNAZ. INFERIOR RELIGIONS. THE MEANING OF THE WILD BODY
A SOLDIER OF HUMOUR
PART I
PART II
PART III
BEAU SEJOUR
THE POLE
BESTRE
THE CORNAC AND HIS WIFE
THE DEATH OF THE ANKOU
FRANCISCAN ADVENTURES
BROTCOTNAZ
INFERIOR RELIGIONS
PART I
PART II
PART III
PART IV
PART V
PART VI
PART VII
PART VIII
THE MEANING OF THE WILD BODY
1. THE MEANING OF THE WILD BODY
2. THE ROOT OF THE COMIC
SIGISMUND
YOU BROKE MY DREAM. OR AN EXPERIMENT WITH TIME
Footnote
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Wyndham Lewis
Published by Good Press, 2021
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This four days' journeying was an entr'acte filled with appropriate music; the lugubrious and splendid landscapes of Castile, the extremely self-conscious, pedantic and independent spirit of its inhabitants, met with en route. Fate was marking time, merely. With the second day's journey I changed trains and dined at Venta de Baños, the junction for the line that branches off in the direction of Palencia, Leon and the galician country.
While travelling, the spanish peasant has a marked preference for the next compartment to his own. No sooner has the train started, than, one after another, heads, arms, and shoulders appear above the wooden partition. There are times when you have all the members of the neighbouring compartment gazing with the melancholy stolidity of cattle into your own. In the case of some theatrical savage of the Sierras, who rears a dishevelled head before you in a pose of fierce abandon, and hangs there smoking like a chimney, you know that it may be some grandiose recoil of pride that prevents him from remaining in an undignified position huddled in a narrow carriage. In other cases it is probably a simple conviction that the occupants of other compartments are likely to be more interesting.
