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Tessa Hadley: “Free Love”

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Book Review - And It's So Sad

It's one of the great rhetorical indictments of western civilization, isn't it? It its set with the young anthropologist levistrauss. And this young nicky, in our very first chapter, is coming to dinner at phyllis's house. At their very first meeting, in the dark of a garden, they kiss. Our modern woman, phyllis, it's her impulse fall in love. She's been kissed, she's been touched. This o great worlds sorrow of things passing and things being lost. I now beto use of german words. This walp schmertz. So were know, very definitely londen, 19 67.

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