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seaver--i wasnt trying to give a complete account of machiavelli, nor his motives, nor the strategies in the text of the prince that enable you to read it in a number of different ways. i did not mention the discourses. i did not outline the democratic reading of the prince. i did not bring up the possibility of irony.
were i teaching a course that uses machiavelli--which i do--i would have noted all this.
i do so every time.
but i understand the peeve.
i share it no less.
but not in every context.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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