A countercastle could have been a base for what we might call a semisiege; not a full-scale containment to a castle or city but a neutralizing effort in which a moderate garrison could make foraging for food and resupplying difficult but not impossible.

Obama did not respond to his fatherlessness or his racial predicament with anger and rage, but as questions for investigation, conversation and synthesis.

...it was of a piece with a broader postwar codification and intensification of modernist reflexivity in the form of what came to be called surfiction or, more durably, metafiction.

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