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He got a better feeling for human life from stories than he had been able to garner from facts; fiction gave him a gestalt of life, one taken for granted by a human; he lives it... He got ideas from 'not-true data' as he called fiction. How to hide a catapult he got from Edgar Allan Poe.

Revolutions... depend on correct organization. Functional organization. How does one design an electric motor? Would you attach a bathtub to it, simply because one was available? No, you would use just those elements necessary to its purpose and make it no longer than needed. So it is with revolution. Never seek to persuade for the pleasure of having another share your views.

Some were bribed, they say. But no escapes; man who takes bribe doesn't necessarily stay bribed.