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"Marguerite Duras was the only one to speak of the children of the plain [in Vietnam] who the moment they were born were condemned to die of hunger, cholera or dysentery. ‘The children simply went back to the land like wild mountain mangoes, like the little monkeys from the mouth of the lagoon.’”" — Aug 11, 2024 03:30AM
"Marguerite Duras was the only one to speak of the children of the plain [in Vietnam] who the moment they were born were condemned to die of hunger, cholera or dysentery. ‘The children simply went back to the land like wild mountain mangoes, like the little monkeys from the mouth of the lagoon.’”" — Aug 11, 2024 03:30AM
progress:
(page 280 of 416)
"Obliged (by Metternich) to take an annual oath that they were not members of secret societies,the bureaucrats joined the next best thing, which were the reading clubs,where foreign newspapers and banned books circulated with police approval.The members of the Legal and Political Reading Union could read Rousseau,the works of the early Swiss communists & even Il Progresso,the mouthpiece of revolutionary Young Italy." — Jun 24, 2024 08:50AM
"Obliged (by Metternich) to take an annual oath that they were not members of secret societies,the bureaucrats joined the next best thing, which were the reading clubs,where foreign newspapers and banned books circulated with police approval.The members of the Legal and Political Reading Union could read Rousseau,the works of the early Swiss communists & even Il Progresso,the mouthpiece of revolutionary Young Italy." — Jun 24, 2024 08:50AM
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