This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1947 edition. Excerpt: …you were taking it seriously, ‘ Ferguson said. 'We thought you were taking all that mouthy crap seriously ’ ‘ All that horrible watered-down Shaw, ’ Swan cut in. ‘All that pseudo-philosophical bombast.’ ‘Some of the ideas are all right, ’ Sam Leseur said to Swan. The social criticism is sound, quite sound. I thought we agreed on that.‘ 'Okay in spots, ’ Swan said. ‘But the execution, 'sblood, the execution.’ The writing, ‘ Leseur said. The architectonic, ’ Ferguson said. The way the God-damn thing was put together.‘ ’ ‘Sblood and bones, ’ Swan said. The structure, the writing, the stock characterization. God’s eyes, the fun I’m going to have with that part of it. When they see my review Wilkinson’ll probably have me kicked out of school.‘ 'Do you think you got away with it all right?’ Ferguson asked Craig. ‘I suppose Wilkinson knew what you were doing?’ He took his cue from something in Ferg’s tone, something in the attitude of all of them. ‘I don’t think so, ’ he said. ‘I don’t think he caught on at all.’ ‘Get your makeup off, ’ Leseur said. ‘We’re throwing a little party and want you to come along. Get your makeup off, we want to get started.’ Dwight began to smear the cold cream on his face. ‘It was close to genius, ’ Swan said. To take it off that way, ‘snails, remarkable. It was one of the subtlest exercises in comic criticism I’ve ever seen.’ ‘Do you really think it went over Wilkinson’s head?’ Ferguson wanted to know. ‘Do you really think he watched the whole thing and still thought you were doing it straight?’ ‘Sure, ’ Dwight said. ‘Of course he did.’ ‘I thought he’d run the curtain down before you got through the first act, ’ Swan said. ‘I thought he’d run you out of the theater.’ Dwight looked at Hodgson. Hodgson was grinning a little. Dwight…
