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As if life itself were ironic . In East Africa I had gone through Mozambique when they were having a civil war , and I had come very close to being gang raped and possibly never getting out of the country alive . The students clearly knew what they were doing when they made the gestures , and they knew the school 's discipline code forbade obscenity in general , if not obscene gestures specifically . Alma Esther suggested that they were exploring the parameters of a new diaspora ; Isaac Aaron suggested that Jean Pierre Michel stop asking so many questions and learn to leave his suitcases partially packed . For instance , the upright man takes his character from the possession of the quality of integrity , but the name given him is not derived from the word ' integrity ' . I arose and undressed , moving on tiptoe about the room , doing stealthily what I had to do , as if I were environed by sleeping enemies whose slumbers it would be fatal to break . Will they be ignored again , and what about giving them basic educational facilities and medical clinics first ? Now they were headed down , connected to each other by 50 feet [ 15 meters ] of rope .