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poisoned

It is distressing that this is a scene replicated many many times in many many developing nations.

bush fears for his life as date of liberal high school talent show nears

old and poor

still killing the natives

And often an extra hour of sleep is a paralytic stroke after which we must recover the use of our limbs, learn to speak. Our will would not be adequate for this task. We have slept too long, we no longer exist.

For my indifference was accompanied by a clear notion of its cause, but was in no way modified by it.

In his little cart drawn by a she-ass which he stopped in front of each house before entering the courtyard, the old-clothes man, brandishing a whip, intoned: "Habits, marchand d'habits, ha...bits" with the same pause between the final syllables as if he had been intoning

I mean that in those brief but inevitable moments, when we detest some one whom we love - moments which last sometimes for a whole lifetime in the case of people whom we do not love.

in having adopted my father's abrupt manner, who would never inform us of any decision except in the manner calculated to cause us the maximum of agitation, out of all proportion to the decision itself. So that it was easy for him to call us absurd for appearing so distressed by so small a matter, our distress corresponding in reality to the ( Read more... )