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Style, which often portrays itself as the most sophisticated level of literary production is in fact the most instinctual, the most connected with primal appetites and aversions. A refined palate is still a palate; one can learn to savor rather than gorge on, say, the blood and entrails of ever rarer species of birds. This does not change the color of t…
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