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Mr. Deane's new work is a study of tedium, perhaps the most tedious novel every written. It may not be the greatest novel on this theme. I have not been enthusiastic in reading on this theme. I normally find it dull, even boring. Mr. Deane, though, has managed to make ennui interesting. There can be no greater proof of a writer's genius than the ability to make the tedious interesting. Ennui as his subject highlights his satirical genius. This new work, despite its humdrum, repetitive matter based on a hairy motif corroborates the claim that his masterpieces are somehow always greater than the preceding ones, once again revealing him to an alliterative genius, master of the litotes in particular and all forms of double speak in general, apart from Double Dutch of which he admits to not knowing a single word, despite libel from his more witless detractors. Mr. Deane does not despise these beings, as he assures me. He only pities them. In my opinion, they do not deserve his pity.

Nor does Mr. Deane ask anyone to pity his unappealing anti-hero, Lorenzo Falcolegno, to pity him or to love him, despicable as he proves himself to be. Just as none of his critics are estimable human beings, his characters are all despicable, though they can all teach us something if we are not too despicable to learn. A sympathetic reader might find something admirable in his final departure, might regard it as a heroic gesture, a beau geste. Mr. Deane would despise it as an act of megalomaniac cowardice.

Count Falcolegno is noble yet the most despicable of Mr. Deane's three-dimensional characters, capable of some growth and behaviour that is not always consistent, a three-dimensional character for whom life is bipolar, in which want and ennui are the two poles of human life. The further we escape from one evil, the nearer we inevitably draw to the other. He wants to be unwanting without being bored, a dual, vain hope.