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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.
Zadie Smith
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Zadie Smith
Age: 48
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
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London
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Zadie Adeline Smith
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