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![“[Vathek] has, in parts, been called, but to some judgments, never is, dull: it is certainly in parts, grotesque, extravagant and even nasty. But Beckford could plead sufficient "local colour" for it, and a contrast, again almost Shakespearean, between the flickering farce atrocities of the…” quote by William Thomas Beckford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a4/william-thomas-beckford-93528_atrocities_vathek-has-in-parts-been-called-but-to-s_668562.jpg)
[Vathek] has, in parts, been called, but to some judgments, never is, dull: it is certainly in parts, grotesque, extravagant and even nasty. But Beckford could plead sufficient "local colour" for it, and a contrast, again almost Shakespearean, between the…
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