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Sifting the Ashes

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An investigative journalism piece on Big Tobacco (Franzen doesn't smoke)

Franzen, J. (2003). Sifting the Ashes. In Franzen, J. How to Be Alone. Picador, pp. 143-163

a chameleonlike person who is unusually ubiquitous (from Woody Allen film "Zelig")

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zeliglike ubiquity

—p.148 by Jonathan Franzen
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zeliglike ubiquity

—p.148 by Jonathan Franzen
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(verb) hesitate or be reluctant to do something that one thinks may be wrong OR (noun) a feeling of doubt or hesitation with regard to the morality or propriety of a course of action

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never scruple to gouge your customers

—p.151 by Jonathan Franzen
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never scruple to gouge your customers

—p.151 by Jonathan Franzen
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an indirect tax charged on the sale of a particular good and paid by the merchant/producer

promiscuous and unprincipled in sexual matters

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thoroughly licentious

on pleasure

—p.163 by Jonathan Franzen
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thoroughly licentious

on pleasure

—p.163 by Jonathan Franzen
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