anyone who can criticise ‘the eminently resistible prose style of [Wood's] donnish, finicky persona’, and then write phrases like ‘Wood’s study must be vast, with well-stocked shelves, judging by the inarguable erudition displayed in his compact vade mecum’, must be pretty immune to irony.”
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