"that he cares for nothing except what might commend itself to a virtuoso Pagan, and thinks only as men thought before Christianity awoke them to the consciousness of sin, of suffering, and of immortality."
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Lorna Sage
(13 January 1943 β 11 January 2001) was a Welsh-born, English academic, literary critic, book reviewer, editor, and author. Her memoir ' (2000) won the .
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