But as in his novels and other work there is a 'kitchening' of the material, a tentativeness.

As a result of Eurobond sales, foreign holders of dollars could find “attractive” investments and thereby refrain from selling the dollars to their central banks, sales that would cause more pressure to step up the gold outflow from America.

Our ancestors were creative in the ways they commemorated historical climactic events. A 2018 summer drought, for example, exposed hunger stones in the Czech Elbe River. Records of extremely low water levels from the fifteenth through the nineteenth century, as well as warnings of their consequences, have been chiseled into these river boulders. For instance, one carved hunger stone reads, Wenn Du mich siehst, dann weine. If you see me, weep.

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