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...ills Book One: Sang Huin "It is probable, then, that if a man should arrive in our city, so clever as to be able to ... ...a sacred, admirable, and charming personage, but we shall tell him that in our state there is no one like him, and that our law exclude... ...owning him with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating ... ...re and less fascinating poet and legend-writer, who will imitate for us the style of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Tok... ...jitterless mass, he jittered into more drowsiness. The contents of his head shook and his mother's voice cried out to him like locusts from the branc... ...sleep could not even restore one's equilibrium in something so horrific. He shook off his sleep like a dog its wetness. He tried to think of Yang Li... ...e aged man gave Sang Huin a look as if he had wasted his time talking to the world's biggest dummy. Sang Huin gave his typical defense of "Miguk sarem... ... proletariat revolutionaries if they had enough money to go to action packed movies or sports stadiums, buy whores once in a while, or other benign co... ...nd yet she did not want to believe that this was all there was. Television, movies, billboards, and music all recorded that the rich, and happy peopl...

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