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#415 - The Pod of Laughter and Forgetting and Tracy Chapman and Crack and The Three Stooges

The Fifth Column

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

40% of Camille's comments on the fifth column are actually directed towards his wife Tracy. "I'll never do that. I don't have the capacity to do that" Kundera himself was expressing conflicted emotions and was even making a metaphor about him using his sort of sexual power in the same way that communists use their power over individual citizens, she says. The standard college co-ed in the late 1980s would have absolutely at least two, if not three, of the following books on their bookshelves.

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