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to be on call twenty-four hours a day-and , unlike today's doctors ,
Dwight was willing even to make house calls.
In a sense, Dwight's living presence was so dazzling that it
tended to eclipse his works, which , for a man of his ample and
diverse talents, were rather too few and scattered. But now, surely,
his uncollected pieces will be collected, even as his conversation and
personality are beginning to be recollected in other people's
memoirs and biographies. In due time there will be biographies and
appreciations of Dwight Macdonald, until Mallarme's great verse,
written , as it happens, about that Edgar Allan Poe whose poetry
Dwight edited, will apply equally to Dwight himself:
" Tel
qu
'en
lui-meme enfin l'iterniti Ie change"- " Such
as into himself at last
eternity transforms him. " I think we can draw some comfort today
from the knowledge that we, and others yet to come, will get to know
him better still now that he has gone into that eternal morning
where, should he look back at his work , he would have spectacularly
little cause for hating himself.
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