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Doris Lessing

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Questioning the moves and motives of the bureaucracy underlies not only the political stance of the group but their general outrage. Repeatedly Alice responds in varying degrees of anger to the senseless decision to not only tear down the unoccupied house, but to make it unfit for occupation by cementing over the commodes and water pipes. Her initial response is cursing, full of the energy of hate. In some corner of her mind...

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