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but it's also mortality that threatens to cancel
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it out altogether.
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The language that the Beats tried to imagine, tried to write,
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takes up some of these problems that we saw in Nabokov.
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Unlike Nabokov, these writers are not trying to make
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a language that is autonomous and separate from the world,
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so you will not see the kind of artifice and the labored
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attention to form.
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You're not going to have a writer spending a month on the
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representation of a barber from Kasbeam.
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You're not going to get that in the Beats.
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Instead, you're getting something, a language that tries to come as