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ENGLAND in the shadow of AMERICA

   Tuesday 29 September 1998

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   Andrew O'Hagan

   I've now decided. Daft questions are good. One day in 1888 a little American magazine called the Critic asked a really good daft question. It printed it on a card and sent it to a handful of American novelists.
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