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Thomas Disch, Novelist, Dies at 68

Banned TS Eliot portrait goes on show | Too phallic for 1938, apparently.

“What sort of criticism is it to say that a writer is pessimistic? One can name any number of admirable writers who indeed were pessimistic and whose writing one cherishes. It’s mindless to offer that as a criticism. Usually all it means is that I am stating a moral position that is uncongenial to the […]