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He was bookish, she was not he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and biological constructions circulating around the mutually attracting binary poles of nature/artifice.

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Zadie Smith
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Zadie Adeline Smith
Construction
Attracting
Cultural
Binary
Rose
Poles
Called
Artifice
Political
Mutually
Nature
Accumulation
Bookish
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Theoretical
Circulating
Biological
Constructions

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