Illiterate street vendor's raw tale exposes gritty 1960s Tangier life

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TBH I find this ‘nothing but lots of very short sentences in quick succession’ style rather tiring to read. Rather like a list. I prefer a bit more variety and nuance to hold my attention.

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Well,
“We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.”
kinda did it for me. YMMV.

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I’ve always been partial to “A screaming comes across the sky,” though my feelings are mixed on the pages that follows it.

“It was a dark and stormy night.”

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“It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.”