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Added May 4, 2015
At the sixteenth lash, the man strapped to the table loses consciousness.
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The Siege
Arturo Perez-Reverte
Published
2014
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Black privilege is the hung elephant swinging in the room.
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For the modern, middle-class North American, "clean" means that you shower and apply deodorant each and every day without fail. For the aristocratic seventeeth-century Frenchman, it meant that he changed his linen shirt daily and dabbled his hands in water but never touched the rest of his body with water or soap.