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The History of Literature
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The Fog, Ah, Come On, More Fog
"Art gives a shape to that incoherent process of stumbling but not quite falling, that constitutes our state of being in the world," writes James. "There are days when the fog is kind of cool and feels like life... And there are days when you think, come on, more fog,. Let me see some sunshine." In her novel, you don't need to time travel back into a world where they barely know what cars are, he adds.
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