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"Authority was invented to give the old a fighting chance against the young. Unconfused they could so easily overrun us. A difficult period is the one after someone has discovered this fact but before it's clear to them that they too will soon be old. It was to pacify this group that we invented currency - the promise that wants you don't even have yet will be fulfilled. They didn't yet know that there is nothing else worth wanting other than removing those older from your neck and those younger from your heels. Everything else was granted when whoever they were decided to stay together in whatever forest night. That you didn't know what to do after stepping free of our loathsome systems, forms, calendars, rules and pauses was all we had."

"Then why is it you watch us so searchingly? Your ploy has worked. You are safe."

"We want to see what you will buy."

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Speaking of which (my reply to karinmollberg) did I ever tell you my fish story, I mean my "Fish" story? A friend was teaching in a freshman seminar called "Writing From Experience." Kid hands in "The Fish," without line-endings. Friend calls her in: What's up with this? Kid... puzzled. Friend: Perhaps this will refresh your memory, handing her a copy of the Complete Poems. Kid, continues to be puzzled, reads "The Fish." Shock and dismay. "I had no idea! My roommate handed this paper in first semester and got an A!"

And friend threw the kid back.