I mean my characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate and they lust; break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.


From a letter to Harold Preece (c. January or February 1928)


I mean my characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate and they...

I mean my characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate and they...

I mean my characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate and they...

I mean my characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate and they...