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I had forgotten what an excellent book this is. Everyone thinks they know this story - Robinson Crusoe meets Man Friday - but in fact the book is so much more than this. To me, it describes the dawning of an introspective consideration of human psychology which required a new art form to be expressed: the novel. For much of this novel, Crusoe is a man entirely alone, undefined by a social world, seeking to place himself in a universe unmediated by human structures or authorities. This is the mod
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