Elements of the past bubble to the surface it turns out that Kate had accidentally caused the death of a fellow-performer who was also her lover as Rivette pursues his lifelong themes: the physical and moral dangers of performance, its inseparability from personal identity, and the fusion of aesthetics with the emotional life.

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It can be a badge of identity, an inheritance of upbringing or a statement of moral intent.

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Moreover, unlike some travel writers he is refreshingly honest about the tricks he plays, reflecting harshly on the moral weakness that leads him, briefly, to feign a Jewish identity in order to win the trust of the surviving Jews of Bukhara.

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Regardless of the identity of the faction, nation, weaponry, asymmetricality, resources, or moral validity involved, the laws of nature consistently and overwhelmingly favor insurgencies.

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Those who practice them are racist bigots who have replaced liberal values that hold everyone to the same moral and criminal standards with illiberal values that judge people's morality and criminality by the identity group with which they are most readily associated.

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