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« She discerns in prior's rictus the unspeakable south he carries on him, these signs and symbolic nuances that permeate all race relations, she recognizes this spontaneous posture that allows a white lady with well-cut hair to offer her black driver the most radiant smiles, a smile of overwhelming affection where her imperious certainty of the natural inferiority of this grandson , that poisonous smile that hasn't moved an inch since Gone with the Wind and that all her childhood Joanna has seen on the powdered faces of white clients, her seamstress mother. »
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« Look at climate change. We never listen to scientists. We emit virtual carbon without brake from fossil fuels, virtual or not, we warm our atmosphere, virtual or not, and our species, always virtual or not, will die out. Nothing's moving. The rich intend to save themselves, in spite of common sense, and the others are reduced to hope. »
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The anomaly |
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The anomaly
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« All the torrents go to the sea and the sea is not full. The torrents go to the sea where they keep going What has been, it will be, what has been done, it will be repeated: There is nothing new under the sun. »
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Hervé Le Tellier
The anomaly |
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The anomaly
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