Jacob’s Reviews > Pilgrimage 3 > Status Update

Revolving Lights

'But you know, although nothing the Americans say is worth hearing, there is something wonderful about the way they go on.'

Because some women had corns, feminine beauty was a myth; because the world could do without Mrs Hermans's poetry, women should confine their attention to puddings and babies. The infernal complacent cheek of it. This was the kind of thing middle-class men read. Unable to criticize it, they thought it witty and unanswerable. That was the worst of it. Books of this sort were read without anyone there to...