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“The will that aims toward its freedom plunges into the void.”

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He writes about — as well as into — the ineffable.

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Her political awareness mirrored the photographic process.

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His vision of Mexico was minimalist and tragic.

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A military comedy, a corporate espionage tale, a wicked sex romp.

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From his mother’s sleep he fell into the State.

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He mocked authority with irony and absurdity.

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He puts Hermes back in charge of hermeneutics.

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Vlad the Impaler was happy to play the role of an absent God.

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He wrote a funny, angry portrait of working-class life.

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He locates the key to our humanity within the permutations of our weirdness.

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Her theme was the wobble in the heart of the universe.

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He hated middlebrow and appreciated madness.

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His boarding-school girls smoked, gambled and even murdered.

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