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...customers. Even some police, reports Xinhua, have begun to acknowledge "the mistaken idea that since they represent the proletarian dictatorship, they have a right to shout at people." From now on they will no longer yell "hey you" at traffic violators; perhaps it will be a polite "hey you, sir...
...think you, as secretary, Fleur, should take it up with him and report the matter to Sir Quentin...
Fleur flourishes, finishes her novel, and retrieves it after Sir Quentin steals it because he believes it libelous and very un-funny. She humors Father Egbert. Satan and the rest, continuing to exalt, "How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century...
When one of Sir Quentin's autobiographers commits suicide--as one of her own fictional characters did, Fleur worries about the resemblance to her novel but remains unmoved. And when the other autobiographers may be in danger, she blithely says. "Presumably they all have friends. I suppose they have friends and relations who will notice if they fall ill... They are not infants. I was thinking of my novel...I had no publisher...
...ends, the autobiographers fade back towards anonymous sanity, Sir Quentin dies, and Fleur's novel attracts enormous acclain. Fleur admits that she lingered to watch the characters wind down, to invite their antagonism, and to risk further danger of libeling them all. "They were morally outside myself, they were objectified. I would write about them one day. In fact, under one form or another, whether I have liked it or not, I have written about them ever since...