selfexamination

Arrayed in superb raiment, with his opera hat under his arm, he concluded his selfexamination hopefully, awaited the arrival of Miss Podsnap, and talked small-talk with

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"It was clear to me", he wrote later, "that unless I cared about every murdered child impartially, I did not care about children being murdered at all" .4 Spender was strong enough to conduct that kind of cathartic selfexamination, and to break out of the vicious circle he had been trapped in.

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