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<p>My first thought, too, Tanya, and also reminiscent of
Vorticism/Blast.</p>
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And my first thought is that the “powerhouse” quote has echoes of
futurism.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">My first thought about the pseudo American is
someone like the American in-law or love interest in an Agatha
Christie novel — crass, impolite, and uncultured, but somewhat
pretty or handsome.
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<div>My 2 cents....<br>
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<div>Professor, Global and Intercultural Studies</div>
<div>Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056</div>
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friends,</span><br>
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white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> It
is the first time that I have come here for
help.</span></div>
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white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I have
some difficulty in understanding the red short
quotations that I am using in my writing as is
attached below. <span style="display: inline
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normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I wonder if you
could help me clarify them? </span>They are
parts of Lehmann's journal taken from page 84 in
his biography <i>John Lehmann: A Pagan
Adventure</i>:</span></div>
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<p style="line-height:150%"><span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: " times="" new="" roman?,serif;="" font-size:="" 20px;?=""><b>Wanted: a new
kind of journalism in London to drive the
elderly softnesses
and condescensions of the </b><i><b>New
Statesman </b></i><b>and </b><i><b>Spectator</b></i><b>
off the
stage, and usurp the </b><span style="color: red; line-height: 150%;
font-family: " times="" new="" roman?,serif;?=""><b>pretence-new of the
pseudo-American</b></span><b>;</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height:150%"><span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: " times="" new="" roman?,serif;="" font-size:="" 20px;?=""><b>Wanted: a new
kind of art to blow the spunkless
complacencies of Bloomsbury
sky-high;</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height:150%"><span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: " times="" new="" roman?,serif;="" font-size:="" 20px;?=""><b>Wanted: a new
kind of writing that has really caught a
spark from the true
machine of modern life, the machine </b><span style="color: red; line-height: 150%;
font-family: " times="" new="" roman?,serif;="" font-size:="" 20px;?=""><b>in
the terrible
powerhouse just off the boulevard</b></span></span></p>
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white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The
context is Lehmann's conflicts with the Woolfs
which trigger his departure from Hogarth in
1932 and also consolidate his determination to
launch a magazine which turns out to be<i> New
Writing</i>. So my questions are</span></p>
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does the "pretence-new of the pseudo-American"
mean in the first item? It seems most puzzling.</span></div>
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white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">2. Do
you think the powerhouse just off the boulevard
might refer to Hogarth Press or probably the
Bloomsbury Group? I'm afraid it should be a
symbol here.</span></div>
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you very much.</span></div>
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