“Trying to imagine E. M. Forster, who found Ulysses indecorous, at a London performance of Lenny Bruce – to which in fact he was once taken. Trying to imagine the same for a time-transported Nathaniel Hawthorne – who during his first visit to Europe was even shocked by the profusion of naked statues.”

“Trying to imagine E. M. Forster, who found Ulysses indecorous, at a London performance of Lenny Bruce – to which in fact he was once taken. Trying to imagine the same for a time-transported Nathaniel Hawthorne – who during his first visit to Europe was even shocked by the profusion of naked statues.”

— David Markson