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Readerly Term No. 003: Perfictionist

by Powell's Compendium of Readerly Terms, July 22, 2015 10:06 AM

War and Peace? Could have been more ambitious. Ulysses? Derivative. To the Lighthouse? It took too long to get to said lighthouse.

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