The Divine Fire

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The Divine Fire is by May Sinclair. The bookshop discussion concerns a large, gaudy concern that, according to its critic, cannot live without taking the life out of little booksellers who were happy enough before. The narrative says that Rickman is deeply moved, that his sentiments do him credit, and that he deserves to be asked to dinner.

A speaker argues that art requires self-restraint rather than self-expansion, calling the supposed impulse a cold, conscious, systematic pose that is artificial and futile. An exchange about suspected drinking turns into disagreement over apologies, with one speaker thinking that the people he has been told to apologise to will have to apologise to him.

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May Sinclair

May Sinclair (1863-1946) was a British novelist and critic, an important figure in early modernism who first applied the term 'stream of consciousness' to fiction and wrote perceptively about women's lives.