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This tag is for questions about the meaning of a longer passage of English. A SPECIFIC CONCERN must be emphasized.

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What’s a “dissipated” garment supposed to be?

Paul Johnson identified the source of the paragraph from the story "The Tillotson Banquet" included in the collection "Mortal Coils" by Aldous Huxley. http://www.online-literature.com/aldous_huxley/44 …
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