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I'm on this train because I'm on my way to the Stratford Festival, still the best thing of its kind in the world, to give a talk on Shakespeare and feasting — what I might call, if I were a proper academic, "The Falstaffian Fress: Moral Tastes and the Embodiment of Appetite in the Early Histories".
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