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Fed, he again backed himself against the wall, squatted on the bed, and looked at the door where his jailers would enter: he had not really understood he was at home.

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First published in Great Britain by Michael Joseph Ltd 1951

‘Events in the Skies' first published in 1987 in
Granta

Copyright © Doris Lessing 1951, 1953, 1973, 1987

This edition copyright © Doris Lessing 2003

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