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/ In the plot, people came to the land;   \
| the land loved them; they worked and    |
| struggled and had lots of children.     |
| There was a Frenchman who talked funny  |
| and a greenhorn from England who was a  |
| fancy-pants but when it came to the     |
| crunch he was all courage. Those novels |
| would make you retch.                   |
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| -- Canadian novelist Robertson Davies,  |
| on the generic Canadian                 |
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