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[D]oes not all power that is real exact that it shall be visible!

— Wyndham Lewis The Apes of God (1930)

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Every pastime has its attendant politics.

The Apes of God (1930)

Wherever there is objective truth there is satire.

Rude Assignment: An Intellectual Autobiography (1950)

I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged, and rather sardonic, lion, in a particularly contemptible and ill-run zoo.

Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.

Inferior Religions (1917)

The earth has become one big village, with telephones laid on from one end to the other, and air transport, both speedy and safe.

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