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unexalted

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Ironically, but perhaps blessedly as well, the narrator is still having to revise and reinvent as he imagines how Blair's body is finally carried by ambulance to Parry's funeral chapel, a humble, unexalted place well-known to Naipaul from his youth.
Kenneth Widmerpool's odiousness derives from his character, not his background: his unexalted origins (his father dealt in liquid manure) are structurally necessary to accentuate his rise to power, especially insofar as it serves as a foil to Charles Stringham's rapid social descent.
God's favor is not dependent on us being unexalted in the world's eyes.
 
 
 
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