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THE QUESTION OF STYLE absurdum. A good illustration of this point is contained in Zola's account of Turgéneff's amazement as he listened to a discussion between Flaubert and his friends regarding that very point already referred to, the pursuit of the one inevitable word:

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But whether you accept Turgéneff's view and choose to cultivate the franker