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                                             May 04, 2009


   From the Michael Innes
   novel "Hamlet, Revenge!" (1937)                 INNES_REVENGE
   p.18:

   "In the technical language of his generation
   Noel was an 'aesthete'.  His normal conversation
   was much of his contemporaties the youngest
   poets.  He ran a magazine for them and wrote
   editorials sagely discussing André Breton
   and Marianne Moore; it was rumored that he had
   been to a tea party with Mr Ezra Pound."



       What generation?

       The novel was written
       in 1937, no major war         Between the World Wars.
       is in progress, though
       sub-plots involve a              Is Noel then one of
       Very Important document          the Lost boys?
       describing trouble spots
       of concern to the great
       powers...



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