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Friday, 14 June 2019

Allowed Him to Sink


George C. Sims (Paul Cain) 1932

           Sims was an alcoholic and a compulsive liar. An ironist given to elaborate fronts that revealed as much as they concealed. A man whose tenuous grasp on his own identity allowed him to sink, for a brief time, into the role as Paul Cain, and to keep playing as long as he could.

Boris Dralyuk
excerpt from
The Incomplete Cain
LA Review of Books
2012
                              https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-incomplete-cain/

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