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such a destination must first contend with aporias of irony and self-interest

deictics ("these guano-spotted buildings")

He sensed he had been proved wrong, which was why his peroration could only soar to empty pathos.

What dominates is a Christian—and Manichean—theme, that of cosmic responsibility.

although disdainful of the meretricious vices he found in most novels, he was at the same time extremely diffident about the merits of his own.