This generation is the flame, the light which will keep this country burning bright in the darkness of an uncertain world.

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Less starkly, his success may simply represent the passing to a new generation of the literary flame albeit, in this instance, a blowtorch.

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But overall the better material found new homes, with a new generation of collectors to carry the flame.

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