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mimetic

Biblical style is famous for its stony reticence, for a mimesis that Erich Auerbach called 'fraught with background'

—p.130 Robert Alter and the King James Bible (128) by James Wood
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Oxonian

How could Vidia not have wanted to defend his father as soon as the Oxonian looked down his nose at him?

—p.120 Wounder and Wounded (115) by James Wood
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amanuensis

enjoyed being his spur and amanuensis

—p.122 Wounder and Wounded (115) by James Wood
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adjuring

the Athenian women adjured by Pericles

—p.122 Wounder and Wounded (115) by James Wood
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then it will be over topic/having-a-body

[...] He is now 'in a free state', but ends his tale like this: 'All that my freedom has brought me is the knowledge that I have a face and have a body, that I must feed this body and clothe this body for a certain number of years. Then it will be over.'

—p.118 Wounder and Wounded (115) by James Wood