Oops, but you nailed it. What kind of person do you think you are wrong?

Or, rather, using “or feel” is still correct but makes the sentence mean something completely different.

In the sentence as is means, more or less, “Toibin and Catton hardly read Crace (or Shakespeare, Austen or Dickens) and… still feel that the riches of English are “his above they are mine.” Is

it true that Toibin and Catton hardly read Crace (or Shakespeare, Austen or Dickens) and also hardly feel that the riches of English are “his before those are mine”. “?

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