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On a “ruined monument near the dock gates” of the town in A Bend in the River, the operators of the steamer have carved a Latin inscription that serves as the municipal motto. The narrator Salim leaves the words untranslated— “Miscerique probat populos et foedera jungi” (62).1
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© 2009 Imraan Coovadia
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Coovadia, I. (2009). Authority and Misquotation in A Bend in the River. In: Authority and Authorship in V. S. Naipaul. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230622463_2
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