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'Ali dies first, in 1996, or perhaps it's 1997. He's been travelling through Italy and Greece by himself, on a sabbatical from the academic world that he has come to loathe (he's a professor at York). The pressure to publish work that he finds palimpsestic is becoming excruciating; beneath the words that he prints, he can see the ghosts of the ones he's struck through and erased. He has no new ideas and finds his colleagues in the humanities facile. They can no longer think for themselves, he believes, and he does not exempt himself from this criticism...' (Publication abstract)
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