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cornucopia
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44) For its promoters, then, the Covent Garden Bazaar not only hastened the repeal of the Corn Laws the following year, it also portended a new way of life, allowed visitors to glimpse fragments of a cornucopian future or eat it in the form of a giant plum cake.
Given a book so cornucopian as this, to mention omissions would be a mean or deficient response; I will predict, instead, that its longterm value will be demonstrated by the supplementary work in dissertations, journal articles, and books that it encourages, such as the study of Shakespeare that Scodel may be reserving for himself (11).
But in discussing the possibilities of a glorious, cornucopian future for comics, McCloud must address the obvious question: If comics have such unlimited potential as a serious art form, why are so damned many of them dominated by heavily muscled men (and the occasional woman) in tights engaging in fisticuffs?
 
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