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And beautiful, bright-green flies.
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The living voice is missing.
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What you get instead is the corpse of the novel, with marrow,
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and blood, and flies.
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Dolly Schiller--
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aptly named of course for the German Romantic philosopher
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who advocated play as a mode of the aesthetic,
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German Romanticist of the nineteenth century--
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Dolly takes on that identity as the Romantic figure,
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and she dies giving birth to a girl,
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to a baby girl; she dies in childbed.
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Remember I asked you from the preface, John Ray's preface,