McLane's many dictions and registers, her playful digressions and pouncing aperçus, her fast footwork that takes her from sorrow to arch amusement in half a sentence, work to demonstrate that. |
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In an ironic way, Prose proves how a reader, choosing her own representation of suffering as universal, misses the point of another tradition of local dictions. |
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A voice is really voices, a gathering of dictions and attitudes that coexist, not always harmoniously, like multiple personalities, or perhaps temperaments or humors. |
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