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...keep them healthy and fat; when business slackened, the meat of those laid off could be sold at a discount. Citizens of Samuel Butler's mythical Erewhon outlawed and destroyed all but the most primitive mechanisms. Scraps of the forbidden machines were kept as museum pieces to warn Erewhonians what not to invent...
Watts and Hayes hooked ropes onto the box, started to haul it out. The rope slipped and Hayes went in to refasten it. Middleton raised his whistle to warn people in nearby buildings. The bomb went off. What was left of Hayes and Watts was buried under the collapsed stone building. Middleton's body was blown through a barbed wire barrier and across the Street of the Prophets. His police whistle was still in his mouth...
When Nagy and two other deputies appeared in the window of the hotel overlooking the square, a tremendous cheer went up from the crowd that had gathered there. But this was a short-lived victory, too. The police colonel spoke again: "I warn you, if you appear anywhere in public, I'll arrest you for attempting to incite a riot...
PLEASE DO YOUR STUFF AND WARN OFF WIDOWS AND VETERANS...
Catechesis. In Chicago, Helen Kelly, 60, threatened with eviction because she kept eleven cats in her apartment, assured a judge that if he allowed her to keep two, there would be no new kittens: "I shall speak to them and warn them against it. They understand...