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This book is gaudy like a gilded cauliflower which smells so bad after a good hot water soaking, like hot chocolate sweetened with sugar beet
incompatibles blended incongruously to no purpose.

— Peter Greenaway

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This book has neither the virtue of irony nor deserves the sympathy reserved for the truly mad.

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