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Page xi: Introduction, 13[original has 5]
Page 48: slink away from a bantam[original has bantum] hen
Page 67: you[original has vou] go in for this sort
Page 129: sheer force of genius[original has genuis]
Page 161: some out-of-the-way[original has out-of-the way] corner
Page 220: exhausts itself in a declaration[original has delaration] of revolt
Page 269: ignorant of contemporary[original is split across lines after con but hyphen is missing] fashions
Page 303: following the [original has the the] same extravagance
Page 332: torture it until it[original has is] has about as much life