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“Angela was one of the unsung heroines of the atom bomb, incidentally,
“Life is sure funny sometimes.” “And sometimes it isn’t,”
“Christ, back in Chicago, we don’t make bicycles any more. It’s all human relations now. The eggheads sit around trying to figure out new ways for everybody to be happy. Nobody can get fired, no matter what; and if somebody does accidentally make a bicycle, the union accuses us of cruel and inhuman practices and the government confiscates the bicycle for back taxes and gives it to a blind man in Afghanistan.”
The major point at which his reason and his sense of humor left him was when he approached the question of what people were really supposed to do with their time on Earth. He believed firmly that they were meant to build bicycles for him.
“What makes you think a writer isn’t a drug salesman?”
So I said good-bye to government, And I gave my reason: That a really good religion Is a form of treason.
Such music from such a woman could only be a case of schizophrenia or demonic possession.
It was not without a certain Walt Disney charm.
