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Twain on Austen

“I haven’t any right to criticize books, but I don’t do it except when I hate them.  I often want to criticise Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can’t conceal my frenzy from the reader, and therefore I have to stop every time I begin.  Every time I read “Pride and [...]
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Obama and Expectations

I finished the previous post on the rather optimistic thought that Obama’s aspiration to be a president of the United States, to connect with conservatives as well as liberals, is what the times call for. This is worth looking at more closely. Firstly, there is this from Yglesias on that prize. But in semi-defense of the Nobel [...]
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