Judge — October 27, 1923 — page 33: what you’re looking at

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raprock’s Passion in the Desert (Continued from page 24) can leave a public place without adding to the mural decorations. There appear, however, to be certain writers so unfor- tunately constituted that they can never refrain from such habits, and certain pub- lishers who are willing to re-whitewash the walls for them to scribble on anew. “The Blind Bow-Boy” is an_ excellent example of this type of literature and publishing. To praise it and its kind, seems just now, in some quarters, to be a sort of duty. If you don’t praise it, presumably you are not “free,” you are puritanic: you are narrow-minded and old f¢ judge of perfumes, however, is not neces- sarily narrow-minded because he objects to the odor of sewer gas, or refuses to keep a pet skunk. A critic of literature is not necessarily puritanical be he no longer finds smirking and musk-scented obscenity either privately edifying or publicly praiseworthy. 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