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Their embassies, he said, were everywhere but operated independently and no ambassador would ever be relieved.
— 1987 The Haw Lantern,'From the Republic of Conscience', pt.3, stanza 4.
The TNC seems to confuse black people with mercenaries: all blacks are mercenaries. If you do that, which means one-third of the population of Libya, which is black, is also mercenaries. They are killing people, normal workers, you know, mistreating them, invading some embassies like the embassy of Kenya, some embassies in Tripoli.
— African Union Chief Accuses Libyan Rebels of Targeting Black Africans
We go down with the bells ringing in all the sunken cities. Forgotten, we are greeted by the embassies of the dead, While your endless flowing carries us on and on; And neither is nor was. The moment only, eternal.
czesław miłosz— "Rivers" (1980), trans. Renata Gorczynski and Robert Hass
We had admired the presidential palace and parliament houses, paused beside the striking India Gate, inspected the 16th Century Humayun's Tomb--a forerunner to the Taj Mahal--and cruised past scores of international embassies. Now, without crossing a border--or pausing at a stoplight--we were in a different world.
— Harry Shattuck, in The old and the new of Delhi: Within city, it's a whole other world, Chicago Tribune1, 4 May 2006
