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...last three summers, a dizzying lack of connections, coupled with an even more dizzying lack of qualifications and initiative, has put me among the ranks of the manual laborer...
Unfortunately, the presence of such people cannot soften the impact of another harsh lesson one learns on an assembly line. Manual labor is not edifying, and it does not bring one closer to God or nature. It destroys the mind...
...second floor of his 18th century house, Fowles follows a daily regimen of "natural drift" in a jumbled study overlooking the English Channel. He is a fast writer but a slow publisher. Composing "in a haphazard, cockamamy way" on a well-worn manual typewriter, he can turn out a draft of an entire novel in two or three months, but typically holds it for revision over a period of years...
...underneath the roaring traffic of Los Angeles' San Diego Freeway. Next to Villa's mattress stands a cardboard Perrier carton that contains most of his worldly possessions: a toothbrush, a tube of Colgate toothpaste, a cracked and yellowing bar of soap, a flashlight and a beginner's manual of English. Villa looks 13, but he claims to be 16. Every morning he hikes over to the "slave market" on Sawtelle Boulevard and hangs around with other youths until someone drives up and offers him $30 for a day's work shoveling gravel or moving furniture. "It's better than picking...
...four pages, and many of these are being sent just because you can send them." Admits Turner: "There is no question that our entire procedure for handling classified documents in this Government is sloppy." Horror stories abound. Turner recalls that, when CIA Clerk William Kampiles sold a classified manual on satellite surveillance to the Soviets (for $3,000), the CIA checked and could not find 13 other authorized copies of the same document...