From Foucault’s Madness and Civilization:
“At the end of the the Middle Ages, leprosy disappeared from the Western World. In the margins of the community, at the gates of the cities there stretched wastelands where sickness had ceased to haunt but had left sterile and long uninhabitable.”
“Leprosy disappeared, the leper vanished, or almost, from memory; these [...]
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the third city?
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“The residents there are accidents of fate, scapegoats to some mysterious natural law of which man knows nothing, isolated for the welfare of their fellows, who else might catch the dread disease, even as they have caught it, nobody knows how.”
Jack London
Jack London, The Cruise of the Snark (New York: Macmillan Co, 1914)
