"I said vehemently, but they took it off." pg. 207 "Ten Days in a Mad House."
Definition of vehemently: fiercely; in an intense manner.
"So the face I was trying to find in Churchill Downs that weekend was a symbol, in my own mind, of the whole doomed atavistic culture that makes the Kentucky Derby what it is." pg. 214 "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved."
Definition of atavistic: The reappearance of characteristics in ancestors that appear over time.
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