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Am on the second half, Dolce. I'm amazed that she had enough sang froid to chronicle the stories of French women falling for their German occupiers. Because of course, this did actually happen (see 1940-1945, Années érotiques : L'occupation intime .

Am on the second half, Dolce. I'm amazed that she had enough sang froid to chronicle the stories of French women falling for their German occupiers. Because of course, this did actually happen (see 1940-1945, Années érotiques : L'occupation intime .

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This is a general request for information. I'm trying to understand how much different countries take from people's income. This is unscientific, but I am asking my GR friends to please pm me how much percentage-wise of the average person's income of their country they think goes to income tax, consumption taxes, and any other form of government levy.

#I-am-not-Craig-Hicks

Read the second half of the first chapter out loud to a friend's dog when I took her out for a walk. A work that definitely needs to read out loud. The dog enjoyed it too. :-)

Really slowing down. Oddly, I find the crushed hope in this last volume more depressing than the pure despair in the last two.

My Piketty is HERE!!!! Yippie!!!

Final volume of this work. I was just thinking that at close to 1,800 pages and 8 million letters (English version), each letter represents one person who died in the Gulag.

Oh god, will this never end.

Kangaroo courts - oh god, this is so depressing.

I really take my hat off to the man. In talking about his torturers, he states that he could easily have become one of them. That's true moral courage and honesty. I'm deeply impressed.

Very thought provoking interview with Christne Brooke Rose. Best quote: "The radical feminists are very much against the androgynous-great-mind stance which was Virginia Woolf's. I am rather for it... Art can't just cut itself off from half its source."

Enjoyed Reset by MJ Nicolls.

The corrective to OB Markers. Should be interesting reading.

Olga dies, murmuring "la maldiction". That not a typo on my part, the text actually says "maldiction" NOT "malédiction". Is this a cheat???? I'm trying to find out.

"Lunch" and "bow-window" are French words!!!

In the build up to the Iraq War, Tony Blair was given a briefing on the Gulf region. An analyst referred to the Mossadeq chapter, and Blair apparently asked, "Who is Mossadeq?" -- !!!!!!!????!!!!! And this is the man they sent to broker peace between Israel and Palestine????!!!????