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Marrakech?? George?Orwell? As?the?corpse?went?past?the?flies?left?the?restaurant?table?in?a?cloud?and?rushed?after?it,?but?they?came?back?a?few?minutes?later.? The?little?crowd?of?mourners?--?all?men?and?boys,?no?women--threaded?their?way?across?the?market?place?between?the?piles?of?pomegranates?and?the?taxis?and?the?camels,?walling?a?short?chant?over?and?over?again.?What?really?appeals?to?the?flies?is?that?the?corpses?here?are?never?put?into?coffins,?they?are?merely?wrapped?in?a?piece?of?rag?and?carried?on?a?rough?wooden?bier?on?the?shoulders?of?four?friends.?When?the?friends?get?to?the?burying-ground?they?hack?an?oblong?hole?a?foot?or?two?deep,?dump?the?body?in?it?and?fling?over?it?a?little?of?the?dried-up,?lumpy?earth,?which?is?like?broken?brick.?No?gravestone,?no?name,?no?identifying?mark?of?any?kind.?The?burying-ground?is?merely?a?huge?waste?of?hummocky?earth,?like?a?derelict?building-lot.?After?a?month?or?two?no?one?can?even?be?certain?where?his?own?relatives?are?buried.?? ? When?you?walk?through?a?town?like?this?--?two?hundred?thousand?inhabitants?of?whom?at?least?twenty?thousand?own?literally?nothing?except?the?rags?they?stand?up?in--?when?you?see?how?the?people?live,?and?still?more?how?easily?they?die,?it?is?always?difficult?to?believe?that?you?are?walking?among?human?beings.?All?colonial?empires?are?in?reality?founded?upon?this?fact.?The?people?have?brown?faces--besides,?there?are?so?many?of?them!?Are?they?really?the?same?flesh?as?your?self??Do?they?even?have?names??Or?are?they?merely?a?kind?of?undifferentiated?brown?stuff,?about?as?individual?as?bees?or?coral?insects??They?rise?out?of?the?earth，they?sweat?and?starve?for?a?few?years,?and?then?they?sink?back?into?the?nameless?mounds?of?the?graveyard?and?nobody?notices?that?they?are?gone.?And?even?the?graves?themselves?soon?fade?back?into?the?soil.?Sometimes,?out?for?a?walk?as?you?break?your?way?through?the?prickly?pear,?you?notice?that?it?is?rather?bumpy?underfoot,?and?only?a?certain?regularity?in?the?