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Wood and Stone, subtitled A Romance, is by John Cowper Powys. The preface says the narrative gathers itself round what is, perhaps, one of the most absorbing and difficult problems of our age, the problem of getting to the bottom of that world-old struggle between the "well-constituted" and the "ill-constituted." The preface asks whether there is such a thing at all as Nietzsche's born and trained aristocracy.
A character named Mr. Romer says that he has been thinking he is really quite unjustified in going on with that allowance to Quincunx. The text imagines the solemn historic portraits of the ancient Seldoms looking out from their gilded frames, with weary and ironical detachment, upon these ambiguous intruders. Valentia had already cast several longing glances through the window at the heavy sunshine falling mistily on the asters and petunias.
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- John Cowper Powys
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- 385
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