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I learned to confront filth with an unblinking expression.
Jane Gardam follows up her 2006 novel, "Old Filth," with this slim book of short stories.
Pictures collected by shopkeepers up and down the high street paint a vivid but unedifying picture of filth with rot and raw sewage running through many premises.
Giving in to the hopelessness of trying to stay clean, people embrace the filth with the enthusiasm of converts to some maddened new religion.
Our Christmas cards may sanitise and romanticise it, but Jesus was born in a pretty insalubrious place, surrounded by animals and filth, with no one for company except a few rough shepherds.
You only washed once a month, so all these royals dressed in fine garments covered their filth with unguents and perfumes — hard times for the nose," he grinned, rubbing his own.
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Those works, along with The Filth (2002 03; with Chris Weston) and We3 (2004–05; with Quitely), exhibit Morrison's mature style, demonstrating his ongoing fascination with the medium of comics and its ability to expand the consciousness of the reader.
He swept the filth away with his hand.
The heat, dust, insects and filth coupled with the destitution of the refugees create a fester-pool of anger and hopelessness.
Last Friends is the final part of a trilogy that began with Old Filth and continued with The Man in the Wooden Hat.
It was just men, stupid with drink and stinking with filth.
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