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east of the Suez Canal, the Ten Commandments do not apply (In the narrator's mind, when you are East of Suez the Ten Commandments don't apply, and a man can do manly things. He can have an affair with a woman, using his relative wealth and power to seduce her, and tell himself that he’s doing nothing wrong. But in London, he feels compelled to follow the Ten Commandments, to behave in a respectable way. He cannot treat a Christian housemaid in the same way he treated a Buddhist woman.  quora.com Alexander Oshis); east of Suez, there ain't no Ten Commandments (Искажённая раскавыченная цитата из поэмы Редьярда Киплинга Mandalay: Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst allpoetry.com Alexander Oshis); east of Suez, there aren't no Ten Commandments (Раскавыченная цитата из поэмы Редьярда Киплинга Mandalay: Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst allpoetry.com Alexander Oshis) |
