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What’s Wrong with the World · Character

Maeterlinck

The Belgian playwright and poet, referenced in discussions of modern thought.

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Also known as Morris, Maurice Maeterlinck

First appearance: what s wrong with the world

Maeterlinck shows up with force in II: Wanted, an Unpractical Man. The page is where that presence becomes real.

Cited as an example of efficiency in filling a man with spiritual tremors, contrasted with jam.
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In II: Wanted, an Unpractical Man: Cited as an example of efficiency in filling a man with spiritual tremors, contrasted with jam. Later, in The Broken Rainbow: Mentioned as an aesthetic medievalist who contrasted the…

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The emotional and psychological peak occurs when Chesterton confesses his shame at realizing "comparatively la…

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