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“In the land of the ostriches, the blind are king. When politicians bury their head in the sand, ignorance rules the country. ( "High noon." )”

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“Humean montañas de basura a ambos lados de la carretera. Seres andrajosos suben y bajan por ellas. Un adolescente, recostado sobre una pila de cartones y trapos, lee. Ha encontrado un libro y lo lee con dificultad, pero hechizado. Para él ha desaparecido el basural, sus manos heladas y sucias pasan las hojas del libro. El adolescente ha terminado de leer su libro. Se encienden estrellas sobre la basura. Es la primera vez que lee un libro desde el comienzo hasta el final. Es la primera vez que descubre que alguien que no lo conoce y a quien nunca vio, sabe exactamente lo que le pasa y lo que piensa. Aprieta el libro. Llora. O casi. Acaba de comprender que no está solo en el universo. Hay alguien que lo entiende y se lo ha contado por medio de un libro. Vuelve a la primera página, a la primera frase. Se repite a sí mismo el nombre del autor. Es un escritor de otro país, de Alemania”

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“One also, in our milieu, simply didn't meet enough Americans to form an opinion. And when one did—this was in the days of crew-cuts and short-legged pants—they, too, often really did sport crew-cuts and trousers that mysteriously ended several inches short of the instep. Why was that? It obviously wasn't poverty. A colleague of my father's had a daughter who got herself married and found that an American friend she had met on holiday had offered to pay the whole cost of the nuptial feast. I forget the name of this paladin, but he had a crew-cut and amputated trouser-bottoms and a cigar stub and he came from a place called Yonkers, which seemed to me a ridiculous name to give to a suburb. (I, who had survived Crapstone… ) Anyway, once again one received a Henry Jamesian impression of brash generosity without overmuch refinement. There was a boy at my boarding school called Warren Powers Laird Myers, the son of an officer stationed at one of the many U.S. Air Force bases in Cambridgeshire. Trousers at The Leys School were uniform and regulation, but he still managed to show a bit of shin and to buzz-cut his hair. 'I am not a Yankee,' he informed me (he was from Norfolk, Virginia). 'I am a CON-federate.' From what I was then gleaning of the news from Dixie, this was unpromising. In our ranks we also had Jamie Auchincloss, a sprig of the Kennedy-Bouvier family that was then occupying the White House. His trousers managed to avoid covering his ankles also, though the fact that he shared a parent with Jackie Kennedy meant that anything he did was accepted as fashionable by definition. The pants of a man I'll call Mr. 'Miller,' a visiting American master who skillfully introduced me to J.D. Salinger, were also falling short of their mark. Mr. Miller's great teacher-feature was that he saw sexual imagery absolutely everywhere and was slightly too fond of pointing it out [...]. Meanwhile, and as I mentioned much earlier, the dominant images projected from the United States were of the attack-dog-and-firehose kind, with swag-bellied cops lying about themselves and the political succession changed as much by bullets as by ballots.”

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Book:Hitch 22: A Memoir
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