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Timothy Materer <[log in to unmask]>
Fri, 10 Mar 2000 14:56:05 -0600
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>A malodorous question for the list. Can anyone remember where Wyndham Lewis
>describes a character in a tight suit breaking wind which bubbles up his
>back and explodes out of his collar?
 
I asked Lewis scholar Alan Munton of the U. of Plymouth about this, and
here's what he says:
 
 
>The answer to Richard Read's enquiry is _The Apes of God_  It's a
>moment early in the novel when Dick Whittingdon has shown up to visit
>(is it?) Lady Fredigonde. He's sitting on the couch or settee at the
>time.
>
 
Timothy Materer, 107 Tate Hall,  English Department
University of Missouri, Columbia MO  65211
Fax: 573 882-5785
http://www.missouri.edu/~engtim

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