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Diary of a Dissenter: A Week From My Window

The institutions of our world have either gone rogue or been captured; the adults have departed every official building. It is as though the word ‘mercy’ has been scratched from every dictionary.

Dec 02, 2022
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Our trip to Granada may have amounted, under certain headings, to a voyage into the future, though this thought does not occur until after the crisis has passed. We have booked a hotel for the night in the heart of this beautiful city, with its narrow streets, unmistakable Moorish inheritance of narro…

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