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Patterned Spectacle. An officer sitting with his back to Nick suddenly swivels in his chair-and turns out to be Widmerpool, that inspired clown who appears in all his novels as Powell's satiric image of England's "new man." Some characters will presumab y never reappear. Others, notably Lieut. Odo Stevens, who falls in love with another of Nick's sisters-in-law, will obviously glide into view again in later chapters of the saga...
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