1. On this day of Canada triumphant, a few thoughts on Mavis Gallant (1922-2014), one of our greatest writers.
7. False to say Europeans discovered America but arguably true that North Americans discovered Europe: Henry James, G. Stein, Gallant.
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8. Europeans see each other through haze of nationalism; it took North Americans to see Europe as a coherent cultural entity.
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9. Gallant became a European in way that only someone born outside continent could: she habituated herself to several national traditions.
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