The title character's bedroom contains a statue of Christ, pried off a crucifix and nailed to the wall. On his desk is a pile of correspondence "all alike, stamped from the dough of suffering with a heart-shaped cookie knife." Steve Garvey and Jud Hume stay up all night debating God's existence, and the title character's friends get drunk at Deleha
The title character's bedroom contains a statue of Christ, pried off a crucifix and nailed to the wall. On his desk is a pile of correspondence "all alike, stamped from the dough of suffering with a heart-shaped cookie knife." Steve Garvey and Jud Hume stay up all night debating God's existence, and the title character's friends get drunk at Delehanty's with a madman who thinks he's Havelock Ellis. The hero has three love affairs, with Lucy, Mary, and Betty, but he keeps thinking of his noseless correspondent during sex. In the final chapter, "[The Title Character] Has a Religious Experience," the eponymous hero is murdered by his editor Shrike. For ten points, identify this tragic novella (masquerading as a satire), about the long martyrdom of the title advice columnist, by Nathanael West.
The title character's bedroom contains a statue of Christ, pried off a crucifix and nailed to the wall.
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