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There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the kind of random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency.
There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the kind of random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency.
Approximate author period: c. 1971 AD · modern
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- Hunter S. Thompson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1971 AD · modern
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