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Rousseau and Proust gave me the most pleasure reading in any language. But, Roland Barthes went on so much about Flaubert, I also now appreciate the mot juste.It is different from Laconic, because that expresses a concept. However much a vocabulary may help, even an illiterate Lacedaemonian says what he means in short, few words. […]

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