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This is another way of manipulating you,
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is to make you see the cliche and then
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to draw back from it to something that surprises you.
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So, this is part of the strategy.
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And then watch what happens to the prose style and the difference in tone:
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"I find it most difficult to express with adequate force
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that flash, that shiver,
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that impact of passionate recognition.
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In the course of the sun-shot moment that my glance slithered
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over the kneeling child, her eyes blinking over those stern,
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dark spectacles, the little Herr Doktor who was to cure
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me of all my aches, while I passed by her in my adult