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Dear List, Anthony Stadlen's warning against the 'symmetry lure' is useful.
I think the wonderfully misleading summary for lazy critics of 'The Luzhin
Defence' is an instance, at least against 'pattern'. And the novel itself a
compassionate study of a victim of the patterning impulse.
Penny McC.
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I think the wonderfully misleading summary for lazy critics of 'The Luzhin
Defence' is an instance, at least against 'pattern'. And the novel itself a
compassionate study of a victim of the patterning impulse.
Penny McC.
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