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Lenu's fulsome praise itself becomes -- on this understanding -- an exercise in masking.

this incipient destruction of form is itself a distinctly formal pleasure, ripe for exegesis

the surprise comes in the bathetic letdown of their failures

we might think of Lila's notebook as an irrepressible paean to what Bahktin once called "novelness" -- a keen sense of language as dialogic, alive, and ever-shifting; revolutionary even.

the magical is only a kind of scrim