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"To write "in the manner of" (...) was something that Proust mastered early and continued to do all his life. (...) He avoided writers such as Mérimée and Voltaire, since a simple, straightforward style like theirs was difficult to parody (just as drag queens avoid "doing" unadorned beauties such as Audrey Hepburn and are inspired by highly constructed women such as Mae West or Barbra Streisand)."