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Remember The Valve's claim that "High Modernism is SF" and, what's more, "Proust's Recherche ... whatever critics have said about it, is actually a time-travel story deeply indebted to Wells's Time Machine"?
Well, I had a good chuckle at the time, but now disturbing new evidence has emerged of Beckett's secret debt to the same author.
Über-Morlock
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Paul La Farge: "If it weren’t such an oversimplification, I would be tempted to say that The Kindly Ones is like The Lord of the Rings told from Gollum’s point of view."
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