Category: O’Neill, Eugene
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Eugene O’Neill
A tortured soul if ever there was one. A soul in torment lacking the sense to know that saucing the mix with John Barleycorn is like pouring gasoline on a fire barely contained but eager to engulf house and home, wife and child. Dowling's biography's another pathography. Well-spent a scholarly life digging through dirty laundry?…
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Paul Brunton on Eugene O’Neill
The Notebooks of Paul Brunton, vol. 7, Healing of the Self, p. 50: The need to take care of the nature of our thoughts was illustrated by the life-story of Eugene O'Neill. The gloomy themes of his plays, the gaunt tragedy and overhanging doom with which he deliberately permeated them, brought him down in his…