Naguib Mahfouz - Palace of Desire (1957)

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The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

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Voices were blended and intermingled in a tumultuous swirl around which eddied laughter, shouts, the squeaking of doors and windows, piano and accordion music, rollicking handclaps, a policeman's bark, braying, grunts, coughs of hashish addicts and screams of drunkards, anonymous calls for help, raps of a stick, and singing by individuals and groups.

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Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.

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