![]() Whom I hear daily – Something in a pot? Something in a paper napkin? But no, I want to give you something in a pan. Inasmuch as I am working at Macy’s, I could appropriate the approach of the salesclerks. (Leo Adams to Merle Macbain, March 8, 1931) If anything, I am more masculine in appearance and actions than I was in Chicago. I brought the subject up, and she delicately stated that my affairs would be decidedly unconventional and "without benefit of clergy". And you know how these people usually expand interminably upon one's love life. The best astrologist amused me by omitting all reference to my love life. I maintain, however, that most geniuses are a little mixed up when the time comes to ejaculate. and Ross do not know that side of my life at all. Denney are the two who know what it is to be temperamental. "If left alone, this young man will go far but we doubt if he will find his way back." (Merle Macbain to Leo Adams, July 12, 1930.)ġ931: "Temperamentals," Male Clerks, "Rough Trade," and the "Twilight Aristocracy" He is not, of course as Wilde as Oscar but neither is he, on the other hand, as Frank as Harris, though if sufficiently Harrised he might go Wilde. "His purple interludes are at once reminiscent of Oscar Wilde and Frank Harris. Adams reinforces his style with the sincerity of his belief in himself and savors it with a sensuality so austere that one is led to believe that he himself is more staid than stayed with. "Though sadly hampered by the English language's notorious lack of synonyms for the capital "I", Mr. "Working with a modern metre, a Washington Square setting and a limited vocabulary, he carries us back to the daze of Greece when Socrates went blind with passion at the sight of the limbs of a youth and when all a young boy had to do to be successful was to get under a good man and work his way up. His story will live in the anals of literature. "Leo Adams, a small town boy who made good in Chicago and went to New York to let his hair down has just aroused the interest (to say nothing of the passions) of his contemporaries with one of the boldest American literary efforts since Eddie Guest he could write poetry. Upon receiving your MS I will Fanny Butcher it something like this: I imagine that it will be something in the nature of an epic––a soul-exposing, world-defying “human document”––and I am asking in advance for the publication rights in Boston. I still await with palpitating eagerness the 18-page letter that you have promised me. 1930: Oscar Wilde and "Letting One's Hair Down"
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