Potterism

A Tragi-Farcical Tract

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Potterism, with the subtitle A Tragi-Farcical Tract, is by Rose Macaulay and carries the date 1920. The dedication is to the unsentimental precisians in thought, who have, on this confused, inaccurate and emotional planet, no fit habitation. An epigraph credited to Samuel Johnson reads My dear friend, clear your mind of cant, and don't think foolishly.

Clare says Mother is writing a novel about Socialism, and Mrs. Potter says she is trying her hand at the burning subject. A speaker's suspicion raises the question of how much Jane knew or guessed. A speaker says human minds are delicate machines and asks how they can go on working truly and precisely and scientifically, with all this poisonous gas floating round them.

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Rose Macaulay

Dame Rose Macaulay (1881-1958) was an English novelist, essayist, and travel writer known for her wit and independent mind. Over a long career she published more than twenty books, ranging from sharp social satires to the late masterpiece The Towers of Trebizond.

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Author: Rose Macaulay
Pages: 187
Language: English
Genre: Satire
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