"The trouble with creating military dictators, Locke reflected, was getting rid of them after the immediate crisis was past."

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"he octopus did not die. Even after he disappeared, he still was eternally alive there. In the antiquated, empty, forgotten water tank of the aquarium. Eternally—most likely through many centuries—an a…"

"And I came .. .It was just after the war and I thought it was a little early to get over there . So I spent the winter under the Brooklyn Bridge, on the Brooklyn side, living with Barney Rosset, and I…"

"Russia today is terribly sick... But even so, have a conscience and don’t demand that–just to please America–Russia throw away the last vestiges of her concern for her security and her unprecedented c…"