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Still, the laughter it provokes is a welcome catharsis.

But the anxiety that the story provokes is a very modern one, felt even by the lucky among us, an anxiety that makes it impossible ever to be completely comfortable in this city, where, when it comes to real estate, no good deal goes unpunished.

The manifest unease that this provokes is an important observation as such.

The heated conversation it provoked is a necessary one.

"But the idea of being sufficiently provoked is a good thing to have.

What it doesn't appear to provoke is a sense of shame among those delaying its return to its proper owner, a German church.

What the stint in hospital provoked was a latent desire to compose light music.

"The Exception" subtly suggests that, however deeply buried, there may, if provoked, be a killer in everyone.

At the same time, though, the fear the movie provoked was a little too intense, and a little too familiar, to work as a purely escapist displacement.

In a searching and prescient passage, he suggests that at the heart of the rebellion and the violence it provoked was a whole history of diabolized "blackness".

And what this provokes is not a tender feeling of nostalgia, but the heavy sense that you live a life that's somehow separate from your country.