'Could this have been one May-Day prank too many?'
'The chief conspirator had already been led away in chains. He was, of course, no longer wearing his black beret - even without it I knew it was him. The other guy, left behind, was simply an acolyte, a hack, the boss-man's chief letter-writer. It was all over so quickly.'
'Chimera, mystery, subterfuge, stealth - and one of these things could have characterized what I felt needed to be done at that very moment. I washed my hands of the repercussions.'
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'Ah, yes. My makeshift demolition was waiting for you.'
'Though we may make of all things what we can, nonetheless it is there for the making - both already and always.'
'It felt as if I'd entered my own gracious East Berlin of the mind, somehow reminiscent of everything now gone, some newer form of Freedom having been amassed.'
'Monstrous gadfly, crazy relic. The Civil War Museum was closed.'
'My total, abstract fantasy of you...the world of your eyes and your being. A presence, not yet fully formed.'
'The rusted years of a fantasy world that people actually lived. A time gone now, but one that - stupidly enough - still sets up its parameters across the land.'