Limbo

Chapter 22: Transcriber’s Note

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About This Book

A series of interlinked short narratives and sketches that move between comic and melancholic tones, tracing moments of adolescent awkwardness, domestic absurdities, and artistic or intellectual restlessness. Scenes present meticulous social observation and pointed irony as characters confront petty vanities, failed ambitions, and the clash between imagination and convention. Tone alternates between farce and reflective melancholy, with episodic structures that shift perspective and register to explore how personal dissatisfaction and cultural expectations shape behavior. Recurring motifs include performative propriety, literary appetite, and the gap between private thought and public roles.

Transcriber’s Note

This transcription is based on images scanned from a copy made available by the University of Toronto and posted by the Internet Archive at:

archive.org/details/ limbohux00huxluoft

The following changes were noted:

p. 70: “Let it start smouldering at once I must—Inserted period after “once”.
p. 196: Even make pretences to re ard—Changed “re ard” to “regard”.
p. 203: Eupompus’ next picture, representing an orchard of identical trees—As this paragraph is a continuation of Emberlin’s speech, an opening double quotation mark was inserted at the beginning of the paragraph.
p. 243: How exciting it was, wasn’t it, HENRIKA?—Changed “HENRIKA” from small caps to “Henrika”.