there's repetition for effect and there's repetition taken to ruining otherwise decent writing. if you were a hopelessly lousy writer it wouldn't have been irritating. use it less and i can return to focusing my anger at ian macewan, updike and toni morrison.
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"She has no waist, no arse...an interesting face...but all we are really worshipping is two bags of silicone"

Martin Amis "honoring" katie price with a character bearing some of her traits