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Burma, America, The World, Art, Literature, Political Economy through the eyes of a Permanent Exile. "We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the oppressed. Sometimes we must interfere. . . There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attention . . . writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the left and by the right." Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Speech, 1986, Oslo. This entire site copyright Kyi May Kaung unless indicated otherwise.

Sunday, May 20, 2012

From Victor Hugo's memoirs of 1848.

http://www.gavroche.org/vhugo/VHM/vhm-daysfeb.html This site is called Victor Hugo Central. The page on which the link is open describes Hugo looking for his son through a room full of corpses. It did not just happen that someone named Victor Hugo wrote a masterpiece like Les Miserables. Kyi May Kaungs

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Sunday, May 20, 2012

From Victor Hugo's memoirs of 1848.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala--I have a volume of her short stories--which I like a great deal.

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