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Louis Arata

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Louis Arata is a writer and actor from the Chicago area, not something he planned in advance but seems to be working nicely for him. He grew up in northern Virginia, just outside of DC, then attended high school and college in West Virginia. The day after graduating Shepherd University, he headed to the Second City.

Various jobs over the years have included selling classified ads, formatting questionnaires, debriefing former gang members, handing out stipend checks, and designing databases.

He is the author of Dead Hungry, a novel about Ghouls in modern-day Chicago. His other work includes two plays: A Careful Wish, a play about Christmas, possible miracles, and other family dysfunction; and Come Undone, about a young man dealing with the ma ...more

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The Mohicans of Paris: A Play in Five Acts

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Louis’s Quotes

“How do I know what I think until I see what I say?”
― E.M. Forster

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“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
― George Orwell

tags: history, propaganda, rewriting-history

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“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, voter, voting

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“Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
― George Orwell

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