"The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable."

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Jean Genet

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Source : Harold Davenport, Bryan John Birch, Heini Halberstam, Claude Ambrose Rogers (1977). “The collected works of Harold Davenport”, Academic Pr
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