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Africa has a genious for extremes, for the beginning and the end. It seems simultaneously connected to some memory of Eden and to some foretaste of apocalypse. Nowhere is day more vivid or night darker. Nowhere are forests more luxuriant. Nowhere is there a continent more miserable

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Lance Morrow
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: September 21
Journalist
Writer
Seems
Extremes
Eden
Miserable
Continent
Connected
Simultaneously
Memory
Vivid
Beginning
Continents
Luxuriant
Memories
Nowhere
Foretaste
Night
Africa
Darker
Ends
Forests
Apocalypse

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