Simon says that Jacob Wrestling was "one of the forerunners of post-war literature," and that "other writers have gone far ahead of him on rather similar lines: James Joyce, for instance."

(a) I said my copy was in storage!

(b) Okay, since my memory seems to have smashed two different statements together, does that mean that Jacob Wrestling was published pre- or during the war, in that sense a forerunner of post-war developments, and I should be thinking of it more coeval with the Imagists?

(the Cottons don't seem much affected by the Great Depression)

Hey, speaking of things which may or may not turn up in books or movies depending on the level of escapism.