 Owen Barfield, Saving the Appearances
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The least celebrated anti-hero in modern literature must be George Amberson Minefer. As an exploration into Freud's Oedipal Complex, even by modern standards, he is an interesting case study. He is the protagonist of Booth Tarkington's 'The Magnificent Ambersons', more famous for being Orson Welles's flawed movie than a towering achievement of literary imagination.
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a brief study in antiquity
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Soon the birds will chirp again,
Here at the silent station of
damp stones,
Dare I say in troubled times?
There he lies with his head
over my house
In a citadel
among the wilderness
Hidden between the fields
and the mountain frame
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"I do not like to distort facts to support a theory."
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