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the article is right on a rhetorical point---the term insurgency is a fantasy, as is the idea that the war is over. this is still war. a different phase from the invasion itself, but war nonetheless.
as for why robespierre didnt talk about the other "lessons of nature":
i dunno.
he is kinda dead to call for a quick soundbite.
i'll check in with my ouija board and get back to you with what he says.
i might still have a collection of stuff he published around here somewhere: plan b would be to look up the statement. but that would require figuring out my girlfriend's system of putting books on shelves--i think there is one, but it remains a mystery to me.
i know where the ouija board is, however.
i wonder how the ghost of someone who was guillotined can talk....maybe i'll ask him that too, if he picks up when i call.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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