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The public is an untrustworthy animal.
Ain't that the freakin' truth...
We can defend ourselves from our enemies, and even from our friends, but never from our family.
Yeah. This.
I get the feeling that this is the last time in history when the offbeats like me will have a chance to live free in the nooks and crannies of the huge and rigid structure of an increasingly codified society. Fifty years from now I would be hunted down in the street. They would drill little holes in my skull and make me sensible and reliable and adjusted. I am, to put it as bitterly as possible, a romantic. I know a windmill when I see one, by God, and I sneer at my white horse.
Speaking as one of the terminally non-adjusted, effin'-A, bro'.
Their schools are group-adjustment centers, fashioned to shame the rebellious.
Hey, he found my high school!
There is one theory that there are but a hundred thousand people in the United States, and the rest of the 189,900,000 is a faceless mob.
Add a good 140,000,000 to that number, these days.
I looked at the speedometer,
You mean "odometer," Mr. McGee :D
