Jens Bjorneboe, like the Russian dissident Yevgeny Zamyatin, believed in heresy. The autobiographical alcoholic hero of his novel MOMENT OF FREEDOM (1966) remarks: "What on earth would our beloved, stinking, beautiful Europe have become without our dope fiends, drunkards, homosexuals, consumptives, madmen, syphilitics, bed-wetters, criminals and epile... »
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