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Free

Without cost. Free goods and services usually come with some strings attached. For example, one may receive a free item with an order to buy another item. Some dispute whether such bonuses are really free. See also: Sweetener.

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"I stood at that very gate looking up at those words - `Arbeit Macht Frie' (Work Makes Free) which have become a potent symbol of Nazi genocide."

`A claustrophobic nightmare'

But Chamoiseau is much more than a punster: As Ti-Cham or Chamzibie, the tape-wielding "pretend ethnographer" turned humble "word-scratcher," he constructs a precarious, multi-layered diglossic edifice that makes free with literary genres and narrative conventions of all kinds.

Solibo Magnificent

He adds invective to his rhetoric of satire and irony, striving to generate recognition that the prideful independence of Protestant and imperial versions of human autonomy, because it makes free will and objective conscience impossible, also makes virtue and justice impossible.