James Fenton - Windbags can be right. Aphorists can be wrong. It is

Windbags can be right. Aphorists can be wrong. It is a tough world.

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Fenton, James. All the Wrong Places: Adrift in the Politics of the Pacific Rim. Atlantic Monthly Press, 1988.

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