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And why this subject?
Still, it does raise the question: Why this subject?
Why this subject all of a sudden and why so many mixed signals, is anybody's guess.
It is easy to see why this subject does not cause mass protest or Twitter trends.
As I read "The Girls," my admiration for its many beauties was corrupted by a worming question: "Why this subject?" Without an answer, the novel comes to seem manipulative.
But if even I, no art historian, vaguely remember that goldfinches were often icons of the messiah, then how can Tartt have Theo wonder (again and again) what the artist meant when he painted it: "Why this subject?
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And so the reader's first question must surely be: "Why?" Why tackle this subject again when you've done it before and we've already got the work of Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, Irène Némirovsky Art Spiegelman, Anne Frank, Bernhard Schlink , Tadeusz Borowski, Jerzy Kosiński, Viktor E. Frankl and W.G.Sebald, to name but ten?
Why might this subject be of particular interest to prospective college students?
A new book about how women achieved power in Hollywood is titled "Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?" the first half of one of Miss West's memorable lines, which concluded with "or are you just happy to see me?" Why is this subject fit for the Op-Ed page?
But why does this subject fascinate me?
Why is this subject, more so than any other, so vital to American society?
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