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July 20, 2008
Oran, Algeria
Our citizens work hard, but solely with the object of getting rich. Their chief interest is in commerce, and their chief aim in life is, as they call it "doing business".
--Narrator describing Oran in opening pages of The Plague (1947), by Albert Camus
Posted by JD Hull at July 20, 2008 11:59 PM