Did TRP take on this printed dare? In effect....

[Mark Kohut]

I would suggest that Allen's 195)s list was his list
of the fashionable intellectual currents of the time
and an author would satirize them all as he---yes, very
ambitiously---savaged the time of his historic time..



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Why should these disparate systems be linked in
a single book by any author? I ask, dumbly. What
do they have in common beside besides the
megalomaniacal ambitions of the author?


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FOR ANYTHING COMPARABLE IN OUR TIME WE WOULD NEED TO IMAGINE
A NOVELIST INTELLECTUALLY POWERFUL ENOUGH TO SATIRIZE IN ONE
BOOK THE EXPONENTS OF, SAY, MARXISM, PSYCHOANALYSIS, THE PSYCHOLOGY
OF JUNG, LOGICAL POSITIVISM, NEO-CATHOLICISM, EXISTENTIALISM, CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE, ABSTRACT PAINTING. ...!!!