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"The Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha liked her books very much, presumably in French translation, for Hoxha was fluent in French."

"Essays on this topic are collected in the astonishing anthology Being Changed by Cross-Cultural Encounters: The Anthropology of Extraordinary Experience in which anthropologists struggle to come to terms with experiences they had in the field which align with their hosts’ world view, but not their own." —Gnostic Pulp via

"It's as if the writer refused to do the choosing between background and foreground..."

"Soft City

Bread and breadknife, like the best of friends,
Nap in the night kitchen, and neither see
Snow taking the city by storm.
The flakes fill the sky, falling soft
Like the crumbs coming off a cut loaf.
The houses, having no home to run to,
No space where snow has not spread,
Must stand sentry as the flakes spin down.
And if some tidy-minded titan
Decided to sweep the whole street up,
The crumbs and buildings, the cars and bushes,
All so like dust, into his outsized dustpan,
Who would be any the wiser?"

—Jonathan Roper at FGR

Confusion.