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Quotation out of context (2) -- Synecdochic quotations: "Beauty, force, and vehemence of impression"
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William Flesch
You know how people will sometimes hum a phrase or say a word or two that haunts them, as though just that phrase, just those words, could mean everything? It's the literary equivalent of the magical name of the beloved. I need only think: Belinda or Geoffrey
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