Word: unabstract
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...suffer asthma and red eyes every time Cachan decides to exercise his God-given right to light up. This doesn't even include the many more tolerant non-smokers who will die later because of Cachan's and his fellow smokers' allegedly innocent puffs. Faced with a decidedly unabstract society that suffers because of his actions, I trust that Cachan will not assert that I must be forced to inhale his smoke. I hope he will recognize that his right to spew his smoke, just as his right to extend his fist, must end at the tip of my nose...
...together for the first time in one book all of Miss O'Connor's stories. Every one is good enough so that if it were the only example of her work to survive, it would be evident that the writer possessed high talent and a remarkably unclouded, unabstract, demanding intelligence. The best are among the best American short stories ever written...
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