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Read My Desire, Pt. 2: Democracy, Anxiety, Film Noir

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The Last Paragraph of This Essay Is Just Like Incredible

"I think that's maybe the smartest thing anybody said about what happens and what film noir is trying to depict," says author. "Once privacy ceases to be something once supposes a veiled from prying eyes and becomes instead something one visibly endures like an unending discomfitting rain", she adds. The essay references detour by l roberts who supplies most revealing reason for protagonist inability to deal with symbolic currency, writes Jonathan Safran Foer. 'The neutral dead system of symbolic community and exchange that had supported the classical world has given way in new art to a world that crawls with private enjoyment,' he argues.

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