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( In the plot, people came to the land; the land loved them;    )
( they worked and                                               )
( struggled and had lots of children.  There was a Frenchman    )
( who talked funny                                              )
( and a greenhorn from England who was a fancy-pants but when   )
( it came to the                                                )
( crunch he was all courage.  Those novels would make you       )
( retch.                                                        )
(                 -- Canadian novelist Robertson Davies, on the )
(                 generic Canadian                              )
(                    novel.                                     )
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