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I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous. – Angela Carter

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Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through. – Angela Carter

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Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. – Terry Eagleton

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Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out. – Robert Hewison

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