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| | Guardian Unlimited Books | Review | Twaddle unswaddled |
 | | Here are pedlars of Nostradamus, and writers of newspaper horoscopes, and academics preaching the End of History, and believers in UFOs, and proclaimers of hidden meaning where no meanings exist (see for instance the ludicrous formulas, much loved by the Daily Mail, which uncover strange prophetic texts in the Bible). |
 | | Here are the Reagans taking guidance from their astrologers; and the Clintons with their woolly advisers and their conversations with the late Eleanor Roosevelt; and the Blairs with Carole Caplin and co. |
 | | And here are the deconstructionists, preaching the truth that there are no truths, in language so dense and obscure that when one sceptical academic wickedly parodied it, they at first hailed his insight and then tried to maintain that they hadn't been hoaxed. |
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