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3. Emmanuel Levinas, Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence, trans. Alphonso Lingis (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1999), 128.
4. J. M. Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons (London: Vintage, 2004), 154.
5. J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians (London: Secker & Warburg, 1980), 64.