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notable for its English transliteration of Teochew adages

they take advantage of the other party’s neediness* create a “blank slate” to ensure they ask questions and listen to the answers

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Disgrace William Duggan and studying the inferences ofAfter years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding. For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rhythms