My work is something like the Penelope's web, never done, but ever in hand.

我的工作就像珀涅罗珀织布一样，永远在手里，永远做不完。

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Ms Fuller's cast is made up of her father, a gruff but gentle tobacco farmer with cigarette ever in hand, her mother, blonde and brittle as an eggshell, and her sister.

ECONOMIST: Africa is a continent made for��and of��storytellers

The result has been a grinding war of attrition between the religious and the secular in which neither side ever gains the upper hand but each at one time or another comes to believe that the other is prevailing.

ECONOMIST: Israel at 50