"One has heard of a tree so tall that it took two men to see to the top of it. Here is a novel so huge that a whole shift of critics is needed to read it. Did I myself do it all alone? By no means. I read only the first and last paragraphs of each chapter. The rest I farmed out to my wife and children, to my cousin Ferd, and to my pastor and my beer man."
-H. L. Mencken, reviewing
Theodore Dreiser's
The "Genius". Mencken and Dreiser had a tangled relationship, but had been friends. As copied from
Damning Words: the life and religious times of H. L. Mencken
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