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Dean is on a city bus, reading a book. Text reads: As I was reading 'Heart of Darkness' on the bus, I started listening to two women talk about the life they left behind in Botswana. Everything I do is trivial.

Microcosm

ByDean Mang-Wooley September 23, 2008June 27, 2017 2008, Calgary
Post Tags: #2008#Botswana#bus#Calgary#colonialism#Heart of Darkness#Joseph Conrad#trivial

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