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Franny and Zooey
- It's also essential to my inner harmony to see Seymour's listing in the goddam phone book every year.†
Chpt 2.1 *
- Zooey went on looking at her for a moment, his face essentially expressionless—discounting a line of perspiration on his rather long and singularly Irish upper lip.†
Chpt 2.3
Definition:
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(essential) necessary or important or relating to the basic nature of something