“Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.”

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Lord of the Flies

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Pincher Martin

1957

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The Spire

1964

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