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Here is the infamous [city] gate,
the one of the olive branch and the sword,
for those who leave, it is so closed
and for those who enter, so open.
If in you peace is exiled
you cannot offer that…
Contributor:
João Pinto Delgado
Places:
Antwerp, Dutch Republic (Antwerp, Belgium)
Date:
17th Century
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But the distant lulls were merely the frame of the picture; the feast for Joseph’s eyes was the green Valley of Jezreel itself, the cradle of the Communes. Twenty years ago a desolate marsh cursed…
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Arthur Koestler
Places:
London, United Kingdom
Date:
1946
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Leuchtentrager sets down his cup. “And there’s no end in sight to the confusion,” he says as though his mind were seriously troubled by this, “they say the Wandering Jew was seen again, not far from…
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Stefan Heym
Places:
East Berlin, East Germany (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1981
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“I must go to carols tomorrow night.”
Mother is serving the soup. Chicken soup again, with noodles, for the third day in a row. While from next door, a roast tickles the nostrils. A myriad globules…
Contributor:
Serge Liberman
Places:
Melbourne, Australia
Date:
1981
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Now whatever else may be involved in a nondeliberate change of accent, one thing is clear: it bespeaks a very high degree of detachment from the ethos of one’s immediate surroundings. It is…
Contributor:
Norman Podhoretz
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1967