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The Unbearable Lightness of Being Part 6, Chapter 14

By Milan Kundera

Part 6, Chapter 14

But Franz was not in actuality a devotee of kitsch. He didn't even vote. He just liked the dream of the Grand March.
One day, some friends call Franz from Paris.
They want him to join them on a march to Cambodia.
Cambodia is in a political and military mess, and the idea is for a group of intellectuals to march and petition to open the borders and let doctors into the country.
Franz is excited by the thought, but then he sees his young student-mistress across the room. He feels as though she is silently begging him not to do it, so he declines.
Except he feels guilty after he hangs up the phone. He feel as though the phone call was a secret message from Sabina.
So he decides to go after all.

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