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"'I feel so at sea. I feel so stupid...Like the character who blurts out something in a play and everybody turns away because they all know something she doesn't know--'
'They don't do that kind of play anymore,' Christa said. 'Now nobody knows anything.'"

"On May 13 Wallace dispatched Al Lingo's troops to smoldering Birmingham. 'Those guns are not needed,' pleaded Birmingham's police chief. 'Somebody's going to get killed.' 'You're damned right it'll get somebody killed!' Lingo responded, and then he led 250 men in a charge down the street clubbing any black man, woman, or child they could find."

It's no real pleasure in life.

Oh. my God

He's pretty good at this

"Every year the [John Birch] Society published a 'scoreboard' of how far down the road to complete Communist subversion each country was; the United States was 50 to 60 percent, Iceland 80 to 100 percent."

I quite liked it, though I wasn't very keen on the boring and over-long parts with the griffin, which I hope has never been anyone's response to an Occam's show

I wish I were like the Cheshire Cat. Or knew somebody like him.

I do love the kinda free indirect discourse style Perlstein brings to history