Excluding Voices: A Necklace of Thoughts on the Ideology of Style -- The Brass Ring and the Deep Blue Sea -- Gilded Lillies and Liberal Guilt -- The Death of the Profane -- Trial by Text: A Sequence of Sublimination -- Teleology on the Rocks -- Crimes Without Passion -- The Obliging Shell -- Ladder to the Light: A Series of Hinged Turning Points -- Fire and Ice -- The Pain of Word Bondage -- Mirrors and Windows -- The Incorruptible Simplicity of Being: A String of Crystalline Parables -- Owning the Self in a Disowned World -- Arm's-Length Intimacies -- On Being the Object of Property.
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