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Originally Posted by Marulus
Are you referring to something like a dormitory or usual building with apartments in it? If it was only a bedsit...
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Sorry, I meant bedsit obviously.
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What was the nature of that squalor? Only dirt and extreme untidiness or something more? Was it confined only to his bedsit (it means a room wiith bed, if I am not mistaken?), or he was spreading it to the corridors?
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Both dirt and extreme untidiness, apart from personal dirt and untidiness. Take into account that showers and toilettes were shared among bedsitters.
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I doubt it would have been archived today (this happened in the nineties, I guess). Today there would be hordes of activists gathering before the building and hysterically shrieking, denouncing the "injustice" perpetrated against one person belonging to one among the several sacred minorities of the modern society.
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Well, it is not like there were not already "activists" behind the agency already. Namely the infamous
Searchlight magazine among others. Just this particular case did not transcend the exchange of letters. And yes, this was around 1991 as far as I can recall.
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