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VOTRE-NOUS (Algeria)

1.  la guerre de liberation   1954-1962       outre-mer       1931                       Islam is my religion.                                Arabic is my language.                                Algeria is my country.     1936                         ... this Algerian nation is not France,                                          cannot be France,                                          and does not want to be France ...       metropole     1954     The Algerian departments are part of the French Republic.                   Between them and metropolitan France there can be no conceivable secession.                   Ici, c'est le France!                                     The evil is spreading.                                     French peace in Algeria is ruined.                                      Weakness always encourages new adventures.     1957    The evil is too profound.                 No agreement is possible between the natives and the French in Algeria.            

ART OF ZIN (Haiti)

  1.  Heart of Darkness At one point, as Marlow pauses in his story, lost for words in the dark, the frame-narrator tells us he listened       "for the sentence, the word,       that would give me the clue to       the faint uneasiness inspired by this narrative, and the clue evades him, just as it evaded, and is still evading, Marlow.      "We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness",       the ends of the great River Congo "lost in the depths of the land",       our "battered, twisted, ruined tin-pot steamboat" straining upstream,       between "the riverbanks' wall of matted vegetation".       "I felt how big, how confoundingly big       was that thing that could not talk       and perhaps was deaf as well.       What was in there?" The quest for Kurtz is similarly confounding:      "a flat piece of board with some faded pencil-writing on it..       'WOOD FOR YOU. HURRY UP. APPROACH WITH CARE.'