Hermione is a well-off young woman who adores every intellectual fad of the 1910s: vibrations, heredity, suffering that purifies, the wonderful Russians and a visiting swami. In breathless monologues she reports the opinions of her circle of poets who never write, cubist sculptors and tame anarchists, never noticing how little she understands any of it.
Don Marquis, creator of archy and mehitabel, skewering pretension in a satire that still lands. Download the free EPUB.