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1. E.M. Forster. Turn of the century England.
2. Some scholars say this man existed. Some say he did not and that his epic poems were oral histories later collected by someone in book form.
3. A collection of an upstart's stenographers' notes at his military briefings.
4. Misery and death in the Belgian Congo.
5. Cattle ranchers. Foot and mouth disease. Destruction of a herd by rifle fire. Highly unpleasant, central character.