They tried to kick in my front door and steal my car, ... The gunshots went all through the night.
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On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city has gathered the idea of an achieved centre of learning, communication, light. Powerful hostile associations have also developed on the city as a place of noise, worldliness and ambition on the country as a place of backwardness, ignorance, limitation. A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.Raymond Williams
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