(verb) to protest or complain bitterly or vehemen…
The Nearest Thing To Life
by
James Wood
Sept. 15, 2017 - Sept. 15, 2017
(read/literary-criticism/essay-collections)
Wood, J. (2015). The Nearest Thing To Life. Jonathan Cape.
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inveigh »
p.84
mimetic »
imitation, especially imitative representation of…
p.84
abeyance »
(noun) a lapse in succession during which there i…
p.58
perforce »
(adverb) by physical coercion / (adverb) by force…
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mediated »
intervened with, through an intermediary
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Literature, like art, pushes against time's fancy…
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In ordinary life, we don’t spend very long lookin…
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But just as Ryabovich’s one-minute story is not r…
p.33
There are two absolutely lancing sentences in thi…
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[...] But a life without stumbling is also unimag…