‘an anecdotic tale of unintelligible human modulations, of its dummied up musings and wool-gathering imaginativeness, which gets denoted in autobiographic narrative of the lives of an insane old man, on one side of hostile international divide, and of a child of eight, on the other, putting subtleties of innocence against the bluster of wiseness, and, through it, against calamitous declaim of the godly’
