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  1. Paul Bowles _ Let it Come Down

    He still felt coreless - he was no one, and he was standing here in the middle of no country. The place was counterfeit, a waiting room between connections, a transition from one way of being to another, which for the moment was neither way, no way.
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  2. Paul Bowles _ Let it Come Down

    You know, everyone here's got some little peccadillo he's hoping to hide.
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  3. Paul Bowles _ Let it Come Down

    You want us all to be snake-charmers and scorpion-eaters," he raged, at one point in their conversation ..."Naturally," Eunice replied in her most provoking manner. "It would be far preferable to being a nation of tenth-rate pseudo-civilized rug-sellers.
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  4. Paul Bowles _ Let it Come Down

    The Hindus are busy letting themselves be seen riding in Cadillacs instead of smearing themselves with sandalwood paste and bowing in front of Ganpati. The Moslems would rather miss evening prayer than the new Disney movie. The Buddhists think it's more important to take over in the name of Stalin and Progress than to meditate on the four basic sorrows. And we don't even have to mention Christianity or Judaism.
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  5. Paul Bowles _ Let it Come Down

    Tangier is a one-horse town that happens to have its own government.
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  6. Paul Bowles _ Let it Come Down

    The rest of the world was there for her to take at any moment she wished it, but she always rejected it in favour of her own familiar little cosmos.
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  7. Paul Bowles _ Let it Come Down

    What a wonderful thing to be an American!" he said impetuously."Yes," said Dyar automatically, never having given much thought to what it would be like not to be an American. It seemed somehow the natural thing to be.
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  8. Paul Bowles _ Let it Come Down

    Still, he could not think of the mass of Moroccans without contempt. He had no patience with their ignorance and backwardness; if he damned the Europeans with one breath, he was bound to damn the Moroccans with the next. No one escaped but him, and that was because he hated himself most of all.
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  9. Paul Bowles _ Let it Come Down

    It was one of the charms of the International Zone that you could get anything you wanted if you paid for it. Do anything, too, for that matter; - there were no incorruptibles. It was only a question of price.
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  10. Paul Bowles _ Let it Come Down

    Since Thami had the Arab's utter incomprehension of the meaning of pornography, he imagined that the police had placed the ban on obscene films because these infringed upon Christian doctrine at certain specific points, in which case any Christian might be expected to show interest, if only to disapprove.
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  11. Paul Bowles _ Let it Come Down

    The Americans are the nature of the future," she would announce in her hearty voice. "Here's to 'em. God bless their gadgets, great and small, God bless Frigidaire, Tampax and Coca-Cola. Yes, even Coca-Cola,darling." {It was generally conceded that Coca-Cola's advertising was ruining the picturesqueness of Morocco.}"
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  12. Paul Bowles _ Let it Come Down

    In reality the gatherings were held in order to entertain these few Moslem guests, to whom the unaccountable behavior of Europeans never ceased to be a fascinating spectacle. Most of the Europeans, of course, thought the Moslem gentlemen were invited to add local color.
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