"Now, Stuart, as you will discover if you have not done so already, believes that the principal raison d'etre of food is to conceal from public view the hideous pattern on the plate beneath."
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Novelists from EnglandAgnosticsPostmodern authorsShort story writers from EnglandBooker Prize winners
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