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| e0940c1 | WHORES. Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius. | syphilis whores | Julian Barnes | |
| 3c20d7b | That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitously like Aymo. Or gave you the syphilis like Rinaldi. But they killed you in the end. You could count on that. Stay around and they would kill you. | illness war death life hemingway government-corruption syphilis government | Ernest Hemingway |