Percy Wyndham Lewis

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    “No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.”
    —Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957)

    “Here is a dirty book worth reading ... a bawdy which will be very useful to put Wyndham and J.J. into their proper cubby holes; cause Miller is sore and without kinks.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    “He’s one of those know-it-all types that, if you flatter the wig off him, he chatter like a goony bird at mating time.”
    —Michael Blankfort. Lewis Milestone. Johnson (Reginald Gardner)