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R Cruz

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May 9, 2008, 4:24:45 PM5/9/08
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Joe Fineman

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May 9, 2008, 8:24:09 PM5/9/08
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R Cruz <nos...@nospam.com> writes:

> Political power is based on emotions.

Another remarkable novel on that subject: _The Ninth Wave_ by
Eugene Burdick (Houghton Mifflin, 1956), set in California ca. 1936:

Mike took a piece of paper off his desk and slowly wrote a
single sentence on it: "Freesmith's Unnumbered Principle: People
appear to love the man who humbles them." He looked at it for
amoment and then shoved it into the desk drawer; along with the
other abandoned pieces of paper that contained similar sentences.

It was his first book, a young man's book about young men. The
semicolon should be a comma, and "contained" should be "bore".

"...The two principles are the only things that make sense out of
all the lousy lectures in economics and politics and philosophy
and history. The first principle is that everyone is scared....
The second principle is that everyone hates...."
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Martha Bridegam

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May 10, 2008, 6:14:14 PM5/10/08
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But "...pieces of paper with similar sentences..." would be plainer and
quicker, no?

/M

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