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York: Harper, 1956), p. 35. 7. Camille Paglia, “Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders,” in Sex, Art, and

American Culture (New York: Vintage, 1992), p. 247. 8. C. Fred Alford, What Evil Means to Us (Ithaca: Cornell University

Press, 1997), pp. 70-71. 9. Colin McGinn, Ethics, Evil, and Fiction (Oxford: Clarendon Press,

1996), p. 66. 10. Jon Elster, The Cement of Society: A Study of Social Order (Cam-

bridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), p. 256. 11. Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary defines “gloat” as “to observe

or think about something with great and often greedy or malicious satisfaction, gratification, or delight.” The lack of surprise is not explicit in this definition, and neither is the notion of misfortune.