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Words brighten as they’re spoken, and the current one glows. Set your phone down and glance at it whenever a sentence needs a second look.
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the crime of offending against respectability itself
A mock-legal coinage modelled on French lèse-majesté, the offence of injuring the sovereign’s dignity. Stevenson treats respectability as a reigning monarch, so that declining a lucrative profession becomes a quasi-treason.
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Definitions are written on request by Claude, which reads the surrounding passage before answering.
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