My God, they stink!
Seamus Perry: Wyndham Lewis goes for it, 5 December 2024
The Collected Works of Wyndham Lewis: ‘Time and Western Man’
edited by Paul Edwards.
Oxford, 566 pp., £190, November 2023,978 0 19 878583 5 Show More
edited by Paul Edwards.
Oxford, 566 pp., £190, November 2023,
“... skin contributing its message of porcine affront.’‘They stink! My God, they stink!’ D.H. Lawrence summed up Lewis’s attitude towards his subject matter. The anti-hero of ‘A Soldier of Humour’ is no less cheerfully disgusted by his own odour: ‘This forked, strange-scented, blond-skinned gut-bag, with its two bright rolling marbles with which ... ”