Vulgar words in Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial (Page 1)
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The dreamer of dreams and the Shorter Catechist, strangely united together, were here directly at odds with the creative power, and crossed and misdirected it, and the casuist came in and manoeuvred the limelight--all too like the old devil of the mediaeval drama, who was made only to be laughed at and taken lightly, a buffoon and a laughing-stock indeed.
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The little early sketch written in June 1875, titled _Good Content_, well illustrates this: "Pleasure goes by piping: Hope unfurls his purple flag; and meek Content follows them on a snow-white ass.
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And after him, on his white ass, follows simpering Content.
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Sore besmirched, on his jackass, follows Content."
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Mr Baildon says about the _Ebb-Tide_: "I can compare his next book, the _Ebb-Tide_ (in collaboration with Osbourne) to little better than a mud-bath, for we find ourselves, as it were, unrelieved by dredging among the scum and dregs of humanity, the 'white trash' of the Pacific.