Word: sisal
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...FLOORS AND FURNITURE You can get a huge sisal rug and then put a smaller, colorful one in the middleand oversize beanbaggy pillows on the floor for hanging out. Stacking boxes for storage can double as coffee tables when you're sitting on those oversize pillows. Use those oversize pillows as living-room-type seating when friends come over, and if they stay over, they can put them together and use them as a guest...
...Portuguese-speaking Africa as the husband of a plantation owner in an unnamed country that is clearly Mozambique. Just as he was about to become his own man, he becomes someone else's. Literary London and a writing life are replaced by 18 years of backwater society and sisal harvests before Willie, at the age of 41, leaves his wife and returns to Europe. "I have been hiding from myself," he concludes. "I have risked nothing. And now the best part of my life is over...