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You want us all to be snake-charmers and scorpion-eaters, he raged, at one point in their conversation ...Naturally, Eunice replied in her most provoking manner. It would be far preferable to being a nation of tenth-rate pseudo-civilized rug-sellers.

Paul Bowles

You want us all to be snake-charmers and scorpion-eaters, he raged, at one point in their conversation ...Naturally, Eunice replied in her most provoking manner. It would be far preferable to being a nation of tenth-rate pseudo-civilized rug-sellers.

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