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Each of his figures exists in a limbo of invalidism, enervation, atrophied mythology, Arcadian dreams of bathing beauties, and all our endless Modernist nudes by riverbeds, in parks, beds, stripped naked facing us, or masturbating.—Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2021 As Eliot went through a crisis involving his turn to Christianity, Vivien’s invalidism, and his mother’s death, his letters got more and more intense and confessional.—Christopher Tayler, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022 Dorothy discovered the upside of invalidism in late middle age——Aimee Levitt, Chicago Reader, 15 Aug. 2017
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