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Jamaica: Truth & Laughter

Written byJanine Mendes-Franco
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Posted 10 September 2009 14:37 GMT

“If death is the closing parenthesis on the fiction of every human life, then humor is the asterisk that proclaims the dignity of human life despite the many absurdities”: Jamaican litblogger Geoffrey Philp explains.

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