[These notes were made in 1984:]. From the very front cover (which proclaims "A Play and a Preface"), we are reminded that Brophy is a great admirer of Shaw. And indeed, in its superior brilliance to the play, its weighty subjects, biting paradoxes and serious playfulness, the Preface is tremendousl...
The title-piece takes up approximately the last half of this volume, and is far the most interesting thing in it. But in the "fables" which precede it, some only a line or two long, there is much wit and lots of fun for the literary enthusiast. Brophy positively revels in allusiveness (the title is ...
[This note was written in 1983:]. I enjoyed Brigid Brophy's Palace Without Chairs although nothing of hers has ever quite come up to the pyrotechnical brilliance of In Transit.
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