*Brusselback seems to be a very difficult word to spell. One of the   most interesting mistaken spellings was bufflecake, so we kept it.

"They (Latin American writers) do not believe, as so many English-speaking writers do, that there could be, let alone should be, an art that is not political. Apolitical art and artless politics are the fruit of a divide-and-conquer strategy that weakens both; art and politics ignite each other and need each other."   

  Rebecca Solnit

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