Word: unsought
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seemed both on the past and on the future; he thought back to his fallen comrades who did not live to share his victory and ahead to how he would contrive to forge one nation out of a divided land. His % moment of triumph gratifies him but comes with unsought consequences. While in jail, Mandela was surrounded by armed guards who never took their eyes off him. Now, wherever Mandela goes he is surrounded by armed guards who never take their eyes off him. In a sense, he has exchanged one form of prison for another, and the revolutionary...
Tolstaya roams the nighttime city, taking us behind the flickering blue lights of a thousand windows. We share the unsought intimacy of overpeopled apartments where "another person's wall darkens and swells with autumn anguish." Those who suffer must not only endure their plight; they must also surrender the peculiarly human right to be themselves: to lust, to scheme, to betray, to generally behave badly. Tolstaya is there to remind us that not even history at its most reckless can rob individuals of the right to their own stories...