{Literary Circles [continued (12)]}[29th November 1988]

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The point* to note is that the order of distinctiveness or noticeability, as it were, of the mid-life crisis as a turning-point from Outer to Inner Circle dominance seems to be:

			Physical Midlife less (ie Difference from) age 32	Age 32 less 1st sign of conversion?
		T. S Eliot	+6 years	-2 (The Waste Land)
		Evelyn Waugh	-1 year	+4 (R[oman] C[atholic] Church)
or reversed	/	Graham Greene**	?+16 years+?	+10 (R[oman] C[atholic] Church)	(delayed from 16?) ***
order	\	Charles Dickens	-3 years	?+1? (Christmas Carol)
		Rudyard Kipling	+3 years	?0 (Recessional?)
		Thomas Hardy	+12 years	- (No sign?)
			<900215>	<900215>

**(confusing because he pre-empted a formal conversion)

– which I would suggest is approximately their order of significance in terms of attention paid to them by modern critics and literary commentators, even though more attention is paid to Outer Circle literary work than to Inner Circle (or ‘reborn’) work where there is any, ie at the top of the list. ****

*[See [Redbook6:41-51)][19881128:2046]{Literary Circles}[28th November 1988]ff]

**[See foot of table above for this footnote]

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****{cf VIII.[] 132}

But now see VII. [] 22ff re regular cycles <900214>

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