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  1. Michael Pollan _ In Defense of Food: An Eater's

    He showed the words "chocolate cake" to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. "Guilt" was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: "celebration.
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  2. J.R.R. Tolkien _ The Hobbit or There and Back

    Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
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  3. Douglas Adams _ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the

    Arthur: If I asked you where the hell we were, would I regret it?Ford: We're safe.Arthur: Oh good.Ford: We're in a small galley cabin in one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet.Arthur: Ah, this is obviously some strange use of the word that I wasn't previously aware of.
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  4. Cormac McCarthy _ Blood Meridian, or the Evening

    Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning.
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