I have lived through an eventful year, yet understand no more of it than a babe in arms. Of all the people of this town — J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
I have lived through an eventful year, yet understand no more of it than a babe in arms. Of all the people of this town — J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
I have lived through an eventful year, yet understand no more of it than a babe in arms. Of all the people of this town — J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
I have lived through an eventful year, yet understand no more of it than a babe in arms. Of all the people of this town — J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
I have lived through an eventful year, yet understand no more of it than a babe in arms. Of all the people of this town — J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
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I have lived through an eventful year, yet understand no more of it than a babe in arms. Of all the people of this town I am the one least fitted to write a memorial. Better the blacksmith with his cries of rage and woe.

— J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
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