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"guns save us from the fear that all life is within us"
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"has been composed facing east into the rising sun and in a mood of poignant regret (poindre, to pierce) that I am rooted in the evening lands."
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Dusklands (1974) is the debut novel by J. M. Coetzee, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. The novel consists of two thematically linked novellas, "The Vietnam Project" and "The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee."
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