Ms. PROSE: And everyone I know has had that temptation.

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This prose, whose repressed English control is admired by everyone from Alan Hollinghurst to Will Self, is drawn inexorably back to a fearful instability, to the nakedness of infancy.

NEWYORKER: Noble Savages

Ms. PROSE: ...that I gave as presents to everyone last year.

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