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It is like the Augustinian version of theodicy: novelists would far rather live in a universe in which negative reviews have the freedom to exist than in one from which such reviews had been banished.

rather than fall into easy pugilism

I turned around and took in the room, feeling haughty and juridical. I saw no mitigating much less exculpatory evidence, nothing to encourage the commutation of his sentence.

the shuddering lees of huge semis

utterly anodyne texts