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  • The meetings were held in shabby houses decorated with a few posters and a lot of folk art, portraits of Lenin and Amerindian fetishes, or terra-cotta figures glorifying the cangaceiros, outlaws of the Northeast.

    --Umberto Eco, 1988, Foucault's Pendulum, p. 162

    October 1, 2008