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All right, let's get going. Chapter 17.

Most of your oral without jumping to conclusions as to their final destination, may I ask if the government has any plans to ease the plight of these poor suffering souls.

It's reaching a point where we can't sit idly by.

The speaker was one Ben Swad,

alias Clement Deo, one of the monsters most faithful

minions, concocter in chief of the poisonous slops

poured piping hot each Monday into the feeble comatose

brains of the 600,000 readers of his weekly rag served up in its fancy sauces.

Citizen of France, North African by blood, sauces. from a certain black harem slave girl sold to a brothel for French officers in Rabat and he learned from the bill of sale and his as he learned from the bill of sale in his family papers married to a Eurasian woman officially declared Chinese and author of several best-selling novels,

Dio possessed a belligerent intellect that thrived on springs of racial hatred barely below the surface and far more intense than anyone

imagined. Like a spider deep in the midst of French public opinion, he had webbed it over so thick with fine gossamer strands

that it scarcely clunt into life. A cordial type all the same given to great and

informative bursts if he chose, though always one way sincere enough

to put his convictions on the line and draw the occasional fire of intelligent colleagues,

of whom there were fewer and fewer, alas, and whom people had all long since stopped reading.

In those topsy-turvy days, the left sprawled out in abundance, while the rightest press in a hopeless

muddle languished alone in its trenches deserted.

The home front, meanwhile, true to form, fraternized high and low, unabashed, and unrestrained.

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