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"Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible."

Craig Raine, British Poet

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"Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible."

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