And then, beyond the Mississippi, he saw a manmade focus of upright, hard structures, and these, too, gave him a funny feeling. Because these were the Ozymandias-who-he? great conapt dwellings erected by that busy builder, Louis Runcible. That one-man ant army that, in its marches, did not gnaw down with its mandibles but set up, with its many metal arms, one gigantic dormlike structure, including kids’ playgrounds, swimming pools, Ping-Pong tables and dart boards. Ye shall know the truth, Adams thought, and by this thou shalt enslave. Or, as Yancy would put it, “My fellow Americans. I have
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