you're the best kept secret in MLA

Australian psych.

"No one knew who would be arrested tomorrow, whose portrait it was best to hang on the wall and whose to hide, which currency to accept and which to try to pass on to some simpleton. Life, however, went on. For a long time I did not have a room of my own; I slept on a sofa in the house of my cousin, a professor of medicine who specialized in venereal diseases. Sometimes there would be firing in the morning, but downcast patients would already be sitting in the waiting room; they invariably looked away from one another, and some tried to cover their faces with a newspaper. The names of the newspapers changed and what they said one day was quite different from what they had said the day before, but this did not worry the patients." --Ilya Ehrenberg, People and Life (tr Bostock and Kapp, 1962)

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