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I don’t want to be told when I wake up, terrified by a dream of total annihilation, because of the H-bomb exploding, that people felt that way about the cross-bow. It isn’t true. There is something new in the world. And I don’t want to hear, when I’ve had an encounter with some mogul in the film industry, who wields the kind of power over men’s minds that no emperor ever did, and I come back feeling trampled on all over, that Lesbia felt like that after an encounter with her wine-merchant. And I don’t want to be told when I suddenly have a vision (though God knows it’s hard enough to come by) of a life that isn’t full of hatred and fear and envy and competition every minute of the night and the day that this is simply the old dream of the golden age brought up to date …
Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook fear time

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  1. Book by Doris Lessing 76.47%
  2. Novelist Lessing 75.86%
  3. Author Lessing 74.07%
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Unscramble DORIS5-letter words that start with D5-letter words that end in S5-letter words containing OR5-letter words containing IS5-letter words with D and O
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Hint 1 meaning
The objective case of thou. See Thou.
Hint 2 anagram
TEEH
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BEING USED OR WORKED FOR THE FIRST TIME
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