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I have volume 1 of Kim Il Sung’s works in English - printed in North Korea in the 70’s. I don’t know if the Foreign Languages Publishing House survived long enough for a Volume 2. They did put out some of Jong’s thoughts on film, if I recall correctly.

This is probably the prize of my collection. I have a first American printing of Lolita, which unfortunately has a bit of cat vomit stain on it or might be in that spot.

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[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

Oh! Here’s another delightful one - this was like $1 at Habitat for Humanity.

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

My GF is Zulu. This fascinates me. They have lots of superstitions like this in Africa but for the most part Christianity drove it out of them so it's pretty lost.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 hours ago

That's pretty neat.