Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, — J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, — J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, — J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, — J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, — J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, — J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, — J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, — J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, — J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, — J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, — J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, — J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, — J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, — J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, — J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, — J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, — J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, — J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, — J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, — J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, — J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, — J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, — J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, — J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, — J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, — J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, — J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, — J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, — J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, — J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
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Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, you can hear them echoing forever within the second sphere.

— J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
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