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Sicily
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Borders, though, are rarely as definite as they appear on maps. The longer you spend living around them, the less sense these kinds of simplistic divisions make. Frontiers are places where identities take on absurdly definite forms, in barbed wire fences and vigilante patrols. At the same time, they're places where boundaries between different cultures break down. Sicilian history is white, Christian and Western, certainly, but it has also been, and still is, black, Arab, Muslim among other thin
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― The Invention of Sicily: A Mediterranean History
― The Invention of Sicily: A Mediterranean History
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she believed in the healthy influence of natural surroundings, never having been in Sicily, where things are different.
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― Reginald
― Reginald
