banksian

adj 2

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ADJ.

compulsive, symbolic

BANKSIAN + NOUN

appendage, itself, lashings, self-parody

PREP.

with

ADV.

naturally

adj

Of or pertaining to Joseph Banks, English botanist and naturalist.

Of or pertaining to Iain Banks (born 1954) or his writings, most notably a utopian style of science fiction.

Naturally it's compulsive Banksian reading, with lashings of gore, squalor, poison, torture and philosophy.

[…]the recurring motif of war and its symbolic Banksian appendage, the figure of the castle[…]

Naturally it's compulsive Banksian reading, with lashings of gore, squalor, poison, torture and philosophy.

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[…]the recurring motif of war and its symbolic Banksian appendage, the figure of the castle[…]

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And it is in the character and story of Abel that this element of Banksian self-parody shows itself most clearly […]

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