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Civilization and its discontents

Note 14 — IV

Joan Riviere translation

There is a short story, which I valued long ago, by a highly sensitive writer, the Englishman, John Galsworthy, who to-day enjoys general recognition; it is called ‘The Apple Tree’. It shows in a very moving and forcible way how there is no longer any place in present-day civilized life for a simple natural love between two human beings.

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