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Reading Marguerite Young's 1,200-page Miss MacIntosh, My Darling was like slipping into a luxurious opium dream.

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...and any discussion of art vs. entertainment in the present cultural climate invites accusations of elitism and snobbery.

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When I first opened this book and saw all those scholarly footnotes, my heart leapt up as though I saw a host of golden daffodils.

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the art critic Crémer reminds Wyatt of Degas’s remark “that the artist must approach his work in the same frame of mind in which the criminal commits his deed

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—I envy Christ, he had a disease named after him

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Esme discovers the earrings and dons them, but Wyatt has already spurned her by that point. Not until the last page on which he appears does he realize the importance of the earrings; by intending to pass them along to his daughter, he demonstrates his recognition of the emotions and . . . Read more

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Finally, while I don’t want to disparage the traditional novel--I still prefer Dickens’s Great Expectations over Kathy Acker’s Great Expectations, though I’ll take Lauren Fairbanks’s Sister Carrie over Dreiser’s any day--there’s a whole other world of novels out there mo . . . Read more

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It was a forged Titian that somebody had painted over another old painting, when they scraped the forged Titian away they found some worthless old painting underneath it, the forger had used it because it was an old canvas. But then there was something under that worthless painting, a . . . Read more

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