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With the help of Blit interpreters, whose language is distantly akin to Tasaday, communication slowly began. The primitives had no weapons, no agriculture, no art, no religion, no words for bad, enemy, war or kill. For good and beautiful they used the same term, mafeon. They loved the jungle; open country was "where the eye sees too far." Happiness flooded their lives. They laughed and hugged and nuzzled by the hour...
...instead of falling into the assembly line of Social Realism, Babel fell into one of the noisiest silences in the history of modern Russian literature. Some of the reasons for Babel's failure to fulfill his production quotas are touched on by Ilya Ehrenburg, Lev Nikulin, Georgy Mun-blit and Konstantin Paustovsky, writers and former friends of the author. Their reminiscences compose most of the generous appendix to You Must Know Everything, a collection of newly translated short stories, abrupt prose exercises and journalistic sketches gathered and annotated by Nathalie Babel, the author's daughter and dedicated literary...
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