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The clumsy soul who stops by a country church in Philip Larkin's 1955 poem, "Church Going", speaks of an "awkward reverence".
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Those writers create heroes who operate under self-designed codes: inarticulate, dumb brutes or stoic brooders who long to give voice to the complex contents of their noble souls but who, alas, are left only to perform their clumsy gestures as if with paws.
At their best, they captured the soul of a particular city, helping to create an identity that digital journalism — with its global reach but clumsy local coverage — often cannot.
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