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What Bradbury seems to be trying to do* is to trace a similar fin de siècle pattern in 1789, 1889, 1989/90. This rather weak pattern gets lost in the over-view of cultural development during and to some extent between these periods; if there were a strong 100-year cycle, one would expect it to show up more clearly through such an overview than in the details of the period.

What the article does usefully for me is to give me the beginning of the left-outer-semicircle part of my booklet, relating to the arts.

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*(ref [The] G[uardian] [19]900920:25 ‘The World after the Wake’, Malcom Bradbury)

[The article referred to in the last previous entry. Does one detect a certain hauteur here? ‘How dare he...!’]

**(See E[ncylopaedia] B[ritannica] 3:335 re Classicism & Neo-classicism)

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