Word: outs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In the interim, we had been picked up by a VW jammed full of people, just missed participating in one near car crash, hunted out an all-night theatre only to find it mysteriously closed, and prowled around the grounds of the National Cathedral in search of someplace to sleep...
And, now, at Frank's house the lights were out.
So I had really come only to test myself. And in the meantime to pretend merely to play a role, to be a would-be streetfighter, to laugh at my own needs, to search out ironies and inconsistencies, to hunt down all that was absurd.
And neither did I come to initiate the revolution. For revolutionaries are simply too human to be trusted with carrying out a revolution, however badly it might be needed.
No, I had simply come to Washington because on November 3rd, Richard Nixon had tried to persuade me not to do so. To persuade me he had used sloppy metaphors and cheap historical lies. That was untenable. I came to Washington out of hate, because hate, unlike love, is the...