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The world is what it is. — V.S. Naipaul

Novel

The world is what it is.

V.S. Naipaul
1979
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Impossibility of progressThe world
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1979
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V.S. Naipaul
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Naipaul, V. S. A Bend in the River. Alfred A Knopf, 1979, pt. 1.

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