Xizor Argus' soup

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As for the Republicans — how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, steel their emotions against decent human sympathy, cling to sordid and provincial ideals exalting sheer acquisitiveness and condoning artificial hardship for the non-materially-shrewd, dwell smugly and sentimentally in a distorted dream-cosmos of outmoded phrases and principles and attitudes based on the bygone agricultural-handicraft world, and revel in (consciously or unconsciously) mendacious assumptions (such as the notion that real liberty is synonymous with the single detail of unrestricted economic license or that a rational planning of resource-distribution would contravene some vague and mystical 'American heritage'…) utterly contrary to fact and without the slightest foundation in human experience? Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.

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Have you ever noticed those reunited couples at the station? Just how cute are they? I haven't decided whether I should envy or pity them.

Jealousy should be appropriate, since I seem to be paralysed by the presence of any member of the opposite sex.

Maybe I'm just not interested. Then again... Maybe I like to think I couldn't care less, because it gives the impression of having an option.

Basically, I'd just like to have my share, like all the others.

That's it: just to make love on strange places with girls I can forget. To be able to say that I've had my wilder years and have learned a lot from those shallow, meaningless affairs, based only on lust.

Ah, forget it!

I just got too wise, too soon.That's the gift I'm stuck with.

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