Candida in modern dress with all the world's foibles hung on the gullibility of the hero. It is an obvious step from the basic annoyances revealed in the essays of I Commit to the Flames to a novel embroidering the same dislikes and exposing the same current madnesses in farcical manner. It takes expulsion from school, imprisonment, social outracism to convince Sanguine that disbelief has a place in the scheme of things. Try it on your intellectuals.