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To: CrazyIvan
I think he alluded to what you are saying in this line: "under penalty in case the number of squirrels did not tally with the number of bullets he expended."

Either way, this is about as unbiased an account of the revolution as I have ever read. I bought it at a used books sale at a library. If you can find a copy somewhere, it's well worth the read. I would not trust a modern condensed reprint. The libs may have convieniently edited out the good stuff. I would look for an original volume from 1903 which is what I have. It cost me $5 I think.

12 posted on 02/12/2004 6:37:23 AM PST by Critter (What's wrong with being a rodent, anyway?)
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To: Critter
The libs may have convieniently edited out the good stuff. I would look for an original volume from 1903 which is what I have. It cost me $5 I think.

Good find, thanks for quoting to us. Love the British understatement; it helps raise the profile of the emphases.

BTW, when I went looking for some reference works on homosexuality, I didn't look at anything later than about 1970, which was just a couple of years before the homosexual political activists (who'd been tremendously busy in California since about 1956) managed to capsize the entire psychiatry profession on the subject of paraphilias, and took the psychologists with them as a bonus. New work is usable, but for a long time PC prevailed.

17 posted on 02/12/2004 7:09:19 AM PST by lentulusgracchus (Et praeterea caeterum censeo, delenda est Carthago. -- M. Porcius Cato)
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