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The PhilosopherтАЩs Stone

by



Colin Wilson




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Published by Granada Publishing Limited in Panther Books 1974 Reprinted 1978
ISBN 0 586 03943 0

First published in Great Britain by Arthur Barker Limited 1969 Copyright ┬й Colin Wilson 1969
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 PREFATORY NOTE


Bernard Shaw concluded his preface to Back to Methuselah with the hope that тАШa hundred apter and
more elegant parables by younger hands will soon leave mine... far behindтАЩ. Perhaps the thought of trying
to leave Shaw far behind has scared off would-be competitors. Or perhaps - what is altogether more
probable - the younger hands are simply not interested in writing parables of longevity, or any other kind
of parable. Most of my contemporaries seem to feel pretty strongly that the activities of thinking and
novel-writing are incompatible, and that to be interested in ideas reveals a deficiency in the creative
faculties. And since the critics also like to foster this idea - perhaps out of a kind of defensive
trade-unionism - it seems to have achieved the status of a law of contemporary literature.