The sequence of events related is less plausible than in Room with a View or Howard's End. Yet at the same time one can see why it is the least popular of his novels. Pembroke was speechless, and-such is human nature-he chiefly resented the allusion to the hot bottle an unmanly luxury in which he never indulged contenting himself with nightsocks." The novel is illuminated with flashes of Forster's laconic wit: (Although in the novel, Elliot marries and goes so far as to produce a child, something Forster had no wish to do.) It is probably Forster's most autobiographical book, the central character, Rickie Elliot, being an aspiring writer who attends Cambridge University. For in it I have managed to get nearer than elsewhere towards what was in my mind-or rather towards that junction of mind and art where creativity sparks." Forster said that The Longest Journey was "the least popular of my five novels, but the one I am most glad to have written.
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