Wrecking the Beanery
"Beyond Life spilled many a bean; beneath its rumblings one discerned more than one cackle of satanic laughter. Jurgen wrecks the whole beanery. It is a compendium of backward-looking and wrong-thinking. It is a devil's sonata, an infernal kindersinfonie for slap-stick, seltzer-siphon, and bladder-on-a-string... And, too, for the caressing violin, the lovely and melancholy flute. How charmingly the fellow writes!" -- H.L. Mencken, Smart Set Criticism