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    A severely disfigured African beggar named Raymond Tong lies outside a Syrian store, covered in rags and vermin. He watches people with a sneering expression, his smallpoxed and noseless face creased. He sometimes displays his few remaining teeth and whines while holding out his begging bowl, perceiving pity. Often he lies alone in the shadow of a crumbling wall in a state of desolation.

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    A severely disfigured African beggar named Raymond Tong lies outside a Syrian store, covered in rags and vermin. He watches people with a sneering expression, his smallpoxed and noseless face creased. He sometimes displays his few remaining teeth and whines while holding out his begging bowl, perceiving pity. Often he lies alone in the shadow of a crumbling wall in a state of desolation.

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    A severely disfigured African beggar named Raymond Tong lies outside a Syrian store, covered in rags and vermin. He watches people with a sneering expression, his smallpoxed and noseless face creased. He sometimes displays his few remaining teeth and whines while holding out his begging bowl, perceiving pity. Often he lies alone in the shadow of a crumbling wall in a state of desolation.

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    African Beggar Raymond Tong Sprawled in the dust outside the Syrian store, a target for small children,

    dogs and flies, a heap of verminous rags and matted hair, he watches us with cunning, reptile eyes, his noseless, smallpoxed face creased in a sneer. Sometimes he shows his yellow stumps of teeth and whines for alms, perceiving that we bear the curse of pity; a grotesque mask of death, with hands like claws about his beggingbowl. But often he is lying all alone within the shadow of a crumbling wall,

    African Beggar Raymond Tong

    Sprawled in the dust outside the Syrian store, a a target for small children, dogs and flies, b a heap of verminous rags and matted hair, c he watches us with cunning, reptile eyes, b his noseless, smallpoxed face creased in a sneer. c
    Sometimes he shows his yellow stumps of teeth a and whines for alms, perceiving that we bear b the curse of pity; a grotesque mask of death, a with hands like claws about his begging-bowl. c

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    But often he is lying allDesolation of humanitys subsistence. a Theme : alone

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