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Characters should be interchangeable as between one book and another. The entire corpus of existing literature should be regarded as a limbo from which discerning authors could draw their characters as required, creating only when they failed to find a suitable existing puppet. The modern novel should be largely a work of reference. Most authors spend their time saying what has been said before — usually said much better. A wealth of references to existing works would acquaint the reader instantaneously with the nature of each character, would obviate tiresome explanations and would effectively preclude mountebanks, upstarts, thimble-riggers and persons of inferior education from an understanding of contemporary literature.
Flann O'Brien At Swim-Two-Birds character

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Unscramble FLANN5-letter words that start with F5-letter words that end in N5-letter words containing LA5-letter words containing NN5-letter words with F and L
Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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The old plural of Eye.
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EEN
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