But these people _announced_ their madness . . . they flaunted their insanity, they weren't half mad and half not, curle — Zadie Smith
But these people _announced_ their madness . . . they flaunted their insanity, they weren't half mad and half not, curle — Zadie Smith
But these people _announced_ their madness . . . they flaunted their insanity, they weren't half mad and half not, curle — Zadie Smith
But these people _announced_ their madness . . . they flaunted their insanity, they weren't half mad and half not, curle — Zadie Smith
But these people _announced_ their madness . . . they flaunted their insanity, they weren't half mad and half not, curle — Zadie Smith
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But these people _announced_ their madness . . . they flaunted their insanity, they weren't half mad and half not, curled around a door frame. They were properly mad in the Shakespearean sense, talking sense when you least expected it.

— Zadie Smith
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