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The Man With No Camp
I. The Man Between Three Flags
He is watching the war from a rented room in North America.
Outside, the parking lot is a geometry of minivans and pickup trucks, the sky the color of dishwater. Inside, three objects share the same narrow desk: a green card in a plastic sleeve, a worn French passport with its soft tricolor, and a small blue booklet from the Islamic Republic of Iran whose emblem still smells, in his imagination, of dust and loudspeakers.
On the screen, a panel of American faces explains to him what is happening to his country.
He mutes them.
The room is quiet except for the…
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