Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity the identity of a culture place language and history the identity of an individual human being as an object for mimetic...

Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity the identity of a culture place language and history the identity of an individual human being as an object for mimetic representation.
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His mouth pursed but pursed in American more generous than English pursing ready for broader vowels and less mincing sounds. His body was long and lean and trim he had American hips ready for a neat belt and the faraway ghost of a gunbelt.
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Contemporary was in those days 1953synonymous with modern as it had not been before and is not now 1977.
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Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity the identity of a culture place language and history the identity of an individual human being as an object for mimetic representation. A.S. Byatt

Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity the identity of a culture place language and history the identity of an individual human being as an object for mimetic representation.
A.S. Byatt