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- Bowles, who lived much of his life in Tangiers, knew the enticing other-ness of Algeria and Morocco, enough to know that you can write about it in straightforward, unadorned prose .
- But that was back when she wasn't fully formed, when she hadn't developed the "Cheyenne-ness" of her character.
- The Airflow's "worst"-ness derives from its spectacularly bad timing.