"Ethel's Love-Life" and Other Writings HISTORY / Asia / Korea and poets with its focus

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can overcome the core contradiction of the system: the daily exploitation and degradation of the majority of the world’s people by a tiny minority of business owners

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"Ethel's Love-Life" and Other Writings HISTORY / Asia / Korea and poets with its focusIn a series of lengthy letters, the unsettled and unruly Ethel Sutherland writes to an initially unnamed and ungendered correspondent, and patiently discloses the troubled history of her past romantic attachments to both men and women. Not until the third letter does she reveal that her correspondent is Ernest, the man to whom she is engaged to be married. Wanting to make him understand how all of her past loves are included and sublimated in her love