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Contemporary' was in those days [1953] synonymous with 'modern' as it had not been before and is not now [1977].A.S. Byatt
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A metamorphosis... The shining butterfly of the soul from the pupa of the body. Larva, pupa, imago. An image of art.A.S. Byatt
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Those words .. . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity: the identity of a culture (place, language and history), the identity of an individual human being as an object for mimetic representation.A.S. Byatt