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They have walked the earth ever since Waugh's famed Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies, symbols of a hypercivilized, degenerate England.

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Finally, the relationship of all these other groups to the subtle, intriguing, hypercivilized society of Europe.

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"Those utterly sober, almost somnolent male voices always seemed very homelike," Purdy recalls, perhaps revealing a central influence on his own hypercivilized diction.

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For what he found was not the old robust, acquisitive East, but an effete, tired, hypercivilized society.

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