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Prelude to a Million Years #[nn]
1933 · ? · 74 pages
Synopsis
Even among the detritus of the industrial age, the artist finds inspiration in the vision of a woman, and tries to sculpt his glorious vision. This moves him to long for a lost love, and he sets out to find her. On the way the city is convulsed. A neighbor beats his wife. The artist is mugged. Police attack striking workers. Patriotic marchers seize passersby and force them to kiss the flag. He finds his long-ago love lewd and drunken, then staggers back to the cold comfort of his sculpture.
Notes
All pages with content are uncut along the top margin -- that is, each "page" is actually two leaves, or one leaf folded at the top. These have been counted as they are meant to be read -- each counting as two pages (the outsides of the fold), with the blank more-or-less inaccessible interior pages ignored. All art is on the recto or right-hand page, with the verso (left-hand) pages blank. The page count is uncertain because the initial indexer had to work from a mutilated copy. If a future indexer can definitely ascertain the page count, please make the correction and delete these last two sentences.