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May 29, 2014
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Authors like to bash critics by saying, "Oh, what has this jerk ever created? He's just tearing down something he could never equal." And even if we ignore the main problem with that (the thing that the critic has created is a work of prose--literary criticism--that can be evaluated according to the aesthetic criteria that we use to evaluate all prose n…

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