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"In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favours that they give and may, one day, ask to have returned. In any country almost empty of men, ‘love thy neighbour’ is less a pious injunction than a rule for survival. If you meet one in trouble, you stop —another time he may stop for you."

This book is driving me crazy. I read somewhere that this author was similar to Flannery O'Conner, but that doesn't seem to be the case.