It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives they are bound only to attempt the le — Frank Kermode
It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives they are bound only to attempt the le — Frank Kermode
It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives they are bound only to attempt the le — Frank Kermode
It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives they are bound only to attempt the le — Frank Kermode
It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives they are bound only to attempt the le — Frank Kermode
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It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives.

— Frank Kermode
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