In 'Open City,' there is a passage that any reader of Joyce will immediately recognise as a very close, formal analogue of one the stories in 'Dubliners.' That is because a novel is also a literary conversation.
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Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing.
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A mob is not, as is so often said, mindless. A mob is single-minded.
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One of the chief characteristics of a mob is its quickness. It is sudden. It pounces.
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Punitive murder by the police and by vigilantes has existed in all societies at some point, and probably still exists in most.
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Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated but possessed of a mournful grandeur.
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