image cuts in: beneath a lamppost, in a street of the city where I am writing, the pallid face of a little old woman, a round, flat little face, like the moon, very pale; I can not tell whether it was sad or hypocritical. She approached me, told me she was very poor and asked for a little money. The gentleness of this moon-fish face revealed to me at once that the old woman had just come out of prison.

'She's a thief,' I said to myself. As I walked away from her, a kind of intense reverie, living deep within me and not at the edge of my mind, led me to think that it was perhaps my mother whom I had just met. I know

nothing of her who abandoned me in the cradle, but I hoped that it was that old thief who begged at night.

It is difficult to write of this wild, fierce book objectively because it affected me too deeply. It is the most obscene and filthy book I have ever read, yet it is also one of the most beautiful and honest books I have ever read.

The passages I have quoted are rare ones fully quotable in print in the country. On the back cover of my copy is "Not To Be Sold in the U.S.A." I would not recommend anyone hopefully waiting for this book to clear our Customs, Post Office, or Court officials.

A. E. Smith

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