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The other me, who did not mean to drown herself, went under the sea and remained there for a long time. Eventually she surfaced near Japan and people gave her gifts but she had been so long under the sea she did not recognize what they were. She is a sly one. Mostly at night we commune. Night. Harbinger of dream and nightmare and bearer of omens which defy the music of words. In the morning the fear of her going is very real and very alarming. It can make one tremble. Not that she cares. She is the muse. I am the messenger.

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History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago.

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America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.

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