“The darkness is there and there and there!" Grandfather flung his arms south, east, west. I stood beside him, looked out in the directions he gave. I said, "I see the world, Grandfather. It frightens me. It doesn't hate me. Why should I hate it?”
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The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica
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