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unclubbable

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unclubbable
adjohne Gruppenzugehörigkeitsgefühl


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This whirling free association could be wearisome if it weren't so hard to resist the vivid turns of phrase - a woman has "a voice you could grate cheese on"; a pile of dead insects looks like "toast crumbs"; the loss of a friend is "a bit of grit in my inner eye" - and the rueful wit of an unclubbable man who, for all his volubility and irascibility, is wary of boring you.
But in this world, the combination of Burnham's ferocious intellectual independence and unclubbable heterodoxy long ago consigned him to the unglamorous limbo that established opinion reserves for those who challenge its pieties too forcefully.
A dissonant voice, an unclubbable writer, has just joined literature's most elite club.
 
 
 
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