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Italics provide a wonderful advantage: you see, right away, that the words are in a rush. When something exists at a slant, you can't help but consider irony.

Ann Beattie

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Ann Beattie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 8
Novelist
Professor
Short Story Writer
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Words
Rush
Helping
Irony
Away
Provide
Right
Exists
Something
Consider
Advantage
Wonderful
Italics
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Slant

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