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... Well this side of Paradise!...
There’s little comfort in the wise.
—Rupert Brooke.
Experience is the name so many people
give to their mistakes.
—Oscar Wilde.
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To
SIGOURNEY FAY
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CONTENTS
BOOK ONE—The Romantic Egotist
CHAPTER 1. Amory, Son of Beatrice
CHAPTER 2. Spires and Gargoyles
CHAPTER 3. The Egotist Considers
CHAPTER 4. Narcissus Off Duty
INTERLUDE
BOOK TWO—The Education of a Personage
CHAPTER 1. The Debutante
CHAPTER 2. Experiments in Convalescence
CHAPTER 3. Young Irony
CHAPTER 4. The Supercilious Sacrifice
CHAPTER 5. The Egotist Becomes a Personage
