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The Unbearable Lightness of Being Part 4, Chapter 24

By Milan Kundera

Part 4, Chapter 24

The ambassador tells Tereza that the rude bald-headed man is with the secret police.
He explains that the secret police remains secret to spy on people, but want to make themselves known for purposes of intimidation.
They want to stage situations to incriminate their enemies. They trap them.
Tereza immediately imagines that the engineer was sent by the secret police. It was all a set-up; even the drunk sixteen-year-old boy was in on it.
Now if they wanted to accuse her of prostitution, they have the engineer's testimonial.

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