Thomas love peacock biography of barack

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() UK businessman, poet and author, with the East India Company , active initially as a poet from before ; his first full-length fiction, Headlong Hall (dated but ), is a discussion novel or symposium, set in the Welsh country estate of Squire Harry Headlong ab-Rhaiader, the Gothic description of which is fantastically exaggerated; the tale features a series of monomaniacal talking heads, whose individual maggots govern their names and natures and their every crazed and crowded utterance, after the pattern of the Menippean Satire.

The text itself is of indirect sf interest through the conflicting discourses of Foster, who is a "perfectibilian", and Escot, a "deteriorationist". Foster's Technology-obsessed triumphalism about a Utopian future contrasts vividly with Escot's conviction that Homo sapiens, provided an unending increase in choices, will compulsively "engender" new needs, "till every human being becomes such a helpless comp