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recitatives 49 crotchets 49 poetic diction 49 jarring juxtapositions 49 prosody 49 richly nuanced 49 pseudo philosophical 49 delicately nuanced 49 subjunctive 49 dangling modifiers 49 Aubrey Maturin 49 essayistic 49 Hölderlin 49 fictions 49 uninflected 49 gaspingly 49 panegyric 49 wickedly satirical 49 grimoire 49 inelegance 49 elegiac tone 49 interpolations 49 visceral immediacy 49 amazements 49 wonderfully evocative 49 sonic textures 49 hagiographical 49 humorlessness 49 hefty tome 49 intellectual pretensions 49 wickedly clever 49 disarmingly funny 49 hokiness 49 engagingly 49 sinister undertones 49 Miéville 49 footnoting 49 handwaving 49 witty lyrics 49 spoonerisms 49 mesmerism 49 psychological acuity 49 re tellings 49 solecisms 49 intricately layered 49 dissonant harmonies 49 dusty tomes 49 circumlocution 49 jargony 49 obtuse 49 thoroughly engrossing 49 Norse myths 49 declarative sentence 49 bodice rippers 49 grotesquerie 49 artfully constructed 49 page turners 49 mordantly 49 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collective nouns 48 adverbs 48 Scholem 48 plummy tones 48 mytho poetic 48 orotund 48 eruditely 48 wordy 48 witty insightful 48 satirical wit 48 kabbalistic 48 rip roaring adventure 48 cutesiness 48 Dame Agatha 48 Wound Dresser 48 abstract nouns 48 tonal variations 48 refutations 48 Vendler 48 unlikable characters 48 delicately wrought 48 wicked wit 48 chapter headings 48 diphthong 48 divertingly 48 Pinteresque 48 self reflexivity 48 fantasias 48 Erik Edborg 48 canonical texts 48 historiographical 48 indirectness 48 Cavafy 48 Manguel 48 neo romanticism 48 coinages 48 odd juxtapositions 48 hardboiled detective 48 painterliness 48 split infinitives 48 sociopolitical commentary 48 cantankerousness 48 demotic 48 Chaucerian 48 Egyptian hieroglyphic 48 chromaticism 48 absurdities 48 situationists 48 readably 48 autobiographically 48 pompousness 48 erudite 48 lexicography 48 clichd 48 hyperarticulate 48 slapstick gags 48 metonymy 48 hymn tunes 48 phantasms 48 deftly sketched 48 medieval 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literal depiction 47 polemical 47 Silas Marner 47 Louis De Bernieres 47 perorations 47 stilted dialogue 47 wry observational 47 apocryphal gospels 47 philosophizing 47 richly imagined 47 postmodern irony 47 Enobarbus 47 treatises 47 puns 47 CP Cavafy 47 slangy 47 expositional 47 Roiphe 47 self referential jokes 47 allusive 47 oeuvre 47 palimpsest 47 incredulousness 47 magic realist 47 Bierds 47 sumptuously illustrated 47 chicklit 47 Louvish 47 oversimplifications 47 Joycean 47 contemporary resonances 47 parenthetical asides 47 Silmarillion 47 Svevo 47 impenetrable dialect 47 numinous 47 floridly 47 subjunctive tense 47 TS Elliot 47 stylizations 47 piquantly 47 supernaturalism 47 Adam Jacot 47 plainness 47 revelatory 47 mathematical proofs 47 cognates 47 disquisition 47 weightiness 47 richly layered 47 bedazzlement 47 charmingly self deprecating 47 fictionalisation 47 linguistic acrobatics 47 Cookbook Collector 47 erotic overtones 47 incantatory 47 librettos 47 didactically 47 poetic 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