And beneath his pessimism,... «The Rum Diary»

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    aruar
    22 сентября 2025

    And beneath his pessimism, his bleak conviction that all the machinery was rigged against him, at the bottom of his soul was a faith that he was going to outwit it, that by carefully watching the signs he was going to know when to dodge and be spared. It was fatalism with a loophole, and all you had to do to make it work was newer miss a sign. Survival by coordination, as it were.

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