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omnivorous
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omnivorous
eating food of both animal and vegetable origin, or any type of food indiscriminately


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On balance, I think this uninformed omnivorousness has stood me in good stead: going willy-nilly from James Joyce (not a clue what Finnegans Wake meant, still haven't) to Barbara Pym (easier, but I could tell she wouldn't change my life) to Rex Warner (and even now, not that many people have read The Aerodrome) is what liking books is all about.
Its author's wide-eyed intellectual omnivorousness is in a way more American than European.
Regulars will know of this column's admiration for the uncritical omnivorousness of the Dutch site a-matter at www.
 
 
 
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