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Re: Whitewash

#49335 12/04/2001 8:51 PM

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Keiva

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Keiva

Carpal Tunnel

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Anu informs us that A Potemkin village is, in other words, whitewash taken to the Nth degree.

In this I would, with all due trepidation and respect, disagree with Anu. IMHO, a Potemkin village feigns the existence of a non-existent thing; a whitewash conceals the defects in an existent thing.

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