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I'm not talking about textbookish fare that will help cure your insomnia, but real page-turners--the kind you won't want to put down.
The play's correct, even lucid, but textbookish Latin is reminiscent of the university classroom and suggests student participation, as when Thestylis, the wife of the Anabaptist peasant Meliboeus, laments, "O temporal O mores
It is perhaps a textbookish drag to reiterate the influence of the West's hygienic standards or vaccinations, railways or canals to avert famines, educational institutions to form Gandhis or Ho Chi Minhs, abolition of religious rites like suttee, or of debt slavery and venal justice; but it shouldn't be.
 
 
 
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