His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

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He wrote many letters to Anaïs Nin criticizing her for her surrealistic style as opposed to the realism that was then deemed correct writing and ended by asking for her hand saying he would "teach her to write"[citation needed] which Edmund Wilson took as an insult. Leon Edel New York NY: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1983
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