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symbolism 50 veers dangerously close 50 Gillray 50 perspicuous 50 lucid prose 50 Carmen Callil 50 Tractatus Logico 50 Irreverence 50 unerring ear 50 cliché ridden 50 documentarylike 50 elegiac tone 50 Edward Bulwer Lytton 50 feelingly 50 quasi Marxist 50 besetting sin 50 Wordsworthian 50 Gary Kamiya 50 demythologizing 50 admonitory 50 Abul Fazl 50 Harlequin Romance 50 gnosticism 50 Thomas Hobbes Leviathan 50 Maxime Rodinson 50 irreducibly 50 Dada esque 50 lionizes 50 allegoric 49 wry witty 49 Nancy Mitford 49 Michiko Kakutani 49 Madame de Staël 49 pithier 49 Buruma 49 Wilfrid Sheed 49 self parodic 49 implicit critique 49 epigrammatic 49 Compositionally 49 revelatory 49 Nasaw 49 Biblical quotations 49 muckraking journalism 49 Herzogian 49 Waldemar Januszczak 49 passingly 49 unpolitical 49 obituarist 49 critic Peter Schjeldahl 49 situationists 49 Nicholas Lezard 49 acutely perceptive 49 conspiracism 49 mythologically 49 Bevis Hillier 49 cogently argued 49 illusionism 49 novelistic 49 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essays 48 Ismat Chugtai 48 humorlessness 48 grandiloquence 48 Arthur Schopenhauer 48 Utopianism 48 midrashic 48 Jean François Revel 48 Walter Pater 48 Kunzru 48 incantatory 48 surrealist imagery 48 existentialist philosophy 48 Salmon Rushdie 48 grotesque parody 48 unintentionally comical 48 roman clef 48 historicism 48 Žižek 48 ahistorical 48 unworldliness 48 speciousness 48 Carl Theodor Dreyer 48 Transcendentalist 48 self effacing modesty 48 Mikhail Bakhtin 48 Francophilia 48 explications 48 wholly believable 48 grotesque caricature 48 epistolary novel 48 Krafft Ebing 48 Tyrant Novel 48 socialist realism 48 scientistic 48 Grassic Gibbon 48 prissiness 48 Algernon Blackwood 48 didacticism 48 mordant 48 minutely detailed 48 unashamedly populist 48 WF Deedes 48 literary masterpiece 48 Chaucerian 48 unreliable narrator 48 toe curlingly embarrassing 48 Basbanes 48 Yourcenar 48 meticulously researched 48 Abstract Expressionist painting 48 self referential 48 revisionist histories 48 Walter 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