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I stop reading wherever apocryphism rears its two-faced head.
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The speaker says they stop reading as soon as “apocryphism” appears. Calling it “two-faced” presents it as something with a divided or deceptive character. The sentence expresses a firm refusal to continue with writing that seems marked by this quality.
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