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The Unbearable Lightness of Being Part 2, Chapter 24

By Milan Kundera

Part 2, Chapter 24

Tereza took her photographs with her to Switzerland, looking to get them published.
The editor was kind but refused them on the grounds that they were out of date. Tereza was still in his office when a female employee dropped off an article on nudist beaches.
The editor nearly apologized to Tereza for publishing something so trivial (nude beaches) and refusing her serious photos.
But Tereza says, without explanation, that the nude beach photos are the same as her photos of the tanks invading Prague.
The editor doesn't understand what she means.
Tereza thinks about her mother walking around naked when she was a little girl, and how she used to try to close the curtains to their apartment to hide her.

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