“Never content just to be, America is also obliged to mean; America signifies, hence its constant and riveting vulnerability to illusion.”

—  Martin Amis

"Phantom of the Opera: The Republicans in 1988" (1988)
Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions (1993)

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