He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She ca…

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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. ✨ On Beauty. Book by Zadie Smith, 2005.
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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. ✨ On Beauty. Book by Zadie Smith, 2005.

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