Hmmm...the aesthetic distinction between say, a Francophone-style cultural criticism that Gray employs in his last two books, versus a chokingly pragmatic AngloSaxon-style looms large here, I suspect...would they really publish anything other than the latter in the Philadephia Inquirer, or the Chronicle Review?
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Ha!
My mom always said, "son, once people start using phrases such as Francophone-style cultural criticism and chokingly pragmatic Anglo Saxon anything it's time for a glass of vodka and a bike ride. Though not necessarily in that order."
And look, the clouds have parted!
Back outside I go.
You win, Gray is awesome!
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