“But you can overcome all this through mental hygiene.” “Wasn't Jesus, and Abraham Lincoln, and George Washington, and Harding, and everybody who ever got anywhere with the mob? And I’m supposed to get somewhere with mobs. “You're a cheap cynic,” she charged, “that’s what you are, and a masochist beside and must you pick your nose?”ĭumb cluck.” He pronounced “Cluck” onomatopoetically. He moved restlessly, for he had discovered that no little of his soul state for the past half hour was due to the fact that he had been sitting on a sharp stone. He pulled confusion around him craftily (though the craft was not of his direct intention) and approached behind this cover stealthily, without conscious design, but with age-old instinctive Cunning a sapience with which he made shift to hide more from himself than from infinite others. He, in turn, measured her, and saw a young woman of approximately twenty-five, with toothsome skin, full lips, and curved replete whiteness. His clothing was of excellent make and texture, but unkempt. His eyes, despite what he said, held a humorous twinkle. He had brown hair in which there was a sprinkling of gray. He appeared, she thought, approximately thirty. This novel is written in a most daring and unconventional style which serves as a perfect medium for the author’s Satanic and subtle insinuation against the pious panderers of Puritanical hypocrisy.įully expecting to discover that the employees had as usual made off with some of the stock. Woodford’s earlier novels have been daring in theme and content “Vice Versa” follows these traditions. The author has here chosen to depend not upon photo- graphic realism but upon that mad distortion of reality and that insane interpretation of life which has come to be known in some quarters as sur-realism. An English reviewer discussing this book called him the “American Rabelais”. Woodford has deserted the realism of his more recent work and returned to his first love, the grotesque, satirical and fantastic, as evidenced by his book of short stories, “Evangelical Cockroach”, which won him wide attention in both America and England. VICE VERSA is as satirical as “Jurgen”, as fantastic as “Orlando” and as crazy as “Night Life of the Gods”.
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