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"An ancient English law made it a crime to witness a murder or discover a corpse and not raise a 'hue and cry.' But we live in a world of corpses, and only about some of them is there a hue and cry."
--Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost
#reading tag#history#imperialism#cultures of dissociation#my posts#it is v hard to isolate quotes from this book because like all good writing the whole is greater than the sum of its parts#(also bc much of it is quite grim)#but ultimately my casementblogging is just an elaborate book rec#for a book which is only tangentially about him anyway. correctly so because the story is much bigger than that.
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