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music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven.

Rebecca West

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Rebecca West
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: December 21
Died: 1983
Died: March 15
Author
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Suffragette
Writer
London
England
Cicely Isabel Fairfield
Dame Cicely Isabel Fairfield
Music
Imperialistic
Colonize
Missionary
Effort
Heaven
Earth

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