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if she'd lived in one of these houses,
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to measure them by her own yardstick
as her father put it.
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Would she not, in all honesty, have done
the same as Chuck and Vera and Ben and
Mrs. Henson and Tom
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and all these people in their houses?
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Grace paused.
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And while she did, the clouds scattered
and let the moonlight through
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and Dogville underwent another
of little changes of light.
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It was as if the light,
previously so merciful and faint,
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finally refused to cover up for the town any longer.
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Suddenly you could no longer imagine a berry
that would appear one day on a gooseberry bush,
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but only see the thorn that was there right now.
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The light now penetrated every unevenness
and flaw in the buildings... and in...the people!
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And all of a sudden she knew the answer
to her question all too well:
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If she had acted like them, she could not have
defenced a single one of her actions
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and could not have condemned them
harshly enough.
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It was as if her sorrow and pain finally
assumed their rightful place.
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No, what they had done was
not good enough.
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And if one had the power to put it to rights,
it was one's duty to do so,
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for the sake of the other towns,
for the sake of humanity,
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and not least, for the sake of the human being
that was Grace herself.