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In that sense Karadzic's schizophrenic fragmentation into gusle-player, psychiatrist, would-be footballer, ecologist, police informer, Chetnik, murderer, politician, would-be Nobel laureate, thief, poet, tutti-frutti guru, Orthodox mystic, into Radovan Karadzic and Dragan David Dabic - is a typical local sickness, the result of a general social lie, a profound moral and mental disturbance, a madness which their milieu continues persistently to treat as though it were normal.— signandsight.com
In every village house in Serbia there is a gusle, and almost in every family a good singer with the gusle.— Serbia in Light and Darkness With Preface by the Archbishop of Canterbury, (1916)
Montenegrin playing the gusle.— Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle
Serbia there is a gusle, and almost in every family a good singer with the gusle.— Serbia in Light and Darkness With Preface by the Archbishop of Canterbury, (1916)
He proved a very drunken beast, and did nothing (in a maner) but drink, & gusle, and consume away y^e time & his victails; and most of his company followed his example; and though M^r.— Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts

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