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The situation dramatically worsened this week with the devastating arrival of cyclone "Eline" that has severed the country's main road trade routes and caused havoc with roads, power and communications in the east and southern parts of Zimbabwe, leaving thousands of people homeless and without food.
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The same equipment also caters to the interconnectivity needs of business through OptiComm's V-lan Point-to-Point service called "Eline" which is equivalent to a Metro Ethernet service.
Media Newswire 2009
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Yet, just as we lament, we meet Marie (Eline Kuppens), a driven runner who struggles to satisfy her ambitions.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2009
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In her case, that's not wholly true, since several of the novel's characters do all they can to save Eline from throwing away her life and chance at happiness.
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Notwithstanding the adulation of almost every man she meets, Eline feels constantly defeated by life, incapable of dealing with its simplest demands, let alone its emotional complexities.
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In fact, like so many of her sisters in 19th-century literature, most notably Flaubert's Emma Bovary, Eline suffers from a terrible sickness: She lives so much in her imagination and daydreams that reality suffers by comparison:
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"The door opened and Eline came in, looking rather pale in a white flannel peignoir, with her hair loose and flowing."
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With "Eline Vere" the estimable Archipelago Books continues to make available in English some the most important works of European literature.
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Nonetheless, as her story progresses, Eline comes to seem all too modern, doing battle with mania and depression, succumbing to what we see now as anorexia and drug abuse.
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Alas, this pattern of exaltation leading to disillusionment leading to despair recurs throughout the novel, until it sen ds Eline into a series of increasingly desperate and crazed acts.
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