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Alain De Bottom’s The Art of Travel causes disconnect allowing the audiences perspectives to change. “Who could not be satisfied with the horizons of home even as thy appropriate the limits of other lands," the double alliteration exhibited suggests that the composer is embracing both familiar and unfamiliar landscapes also reinforced by the high modality language that Alain De Bottom feels as though this should be both natural and universal. Similarly in Margaret Atwood The City Planners as she fails to embrace the ‘limits of other lands’ as she disagrees with the suburban … “what offends us is the sanities: the houses in pedantic rows, the planted sanitary trees”, Atwood's use of the inclusive pronoun ‘us’ reinforces the writers views on

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