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Malcolm Bradbury, Eating People is Wrong Quotes: You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me can't understand it.
         

You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me can't understand it.


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You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me can't understand it.
         



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