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vicissitudes
The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays

an ideal, a kind of abstract utopia, a recovered country free of vicissitudes

—p.332 Packing My Father-in-Law's Library (327) by James Wood
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captious

he could be captious, censorious, bullying

—p.329 Packing My Father-in-Law's Library (327) by James Wood
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censorious

he could be captious, censorious, bullying

—p.329 Packing My Father-in-Law's Library (327) by James Wood
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mediated

a fairly familiar postmodern defence of poetry: We are all trapped in modes of inauthenticity, all of us mediated by discourses more powerful than the mere individual's

—p.325 Life's White Machine: Ben Lerner (320) by James Wood
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rictus

he is sure that he is not attractive enough for his surroundings, and thus 'sets' his face into an interesting rictus

—p.322 Life's White Machine: Ben Lerner (320) by James Wood
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