...the English have become such a pitiful lot these days, with hardly any idea what to do with themselves now that they no longer have one quarter of the earth's human population bowing and scraping before them. They don't seem to know that this empire business was all wrong and they should, at least, be wearing sackcloth and ashed in token penance of the wrongs committed, the irrevocableness of their bad deeds, for no natural disaster imaginable could equal the harm they did...
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Jamaica Kincaid was a contemporary American antiguan-american writer. Jamaica Kincaid is an Antiguan–American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer. Born in St. Read more on Wikipedia →