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Wilson despised the rise of beaurocratic technocracy. Its ugliness and violence threatened and isolated him. Nonetheless, to the end, Wilson continued to write and to travel. In March--returning to his home in Welfleet from a winter in Naples, Fla.--he insisted on traveling by car in hopes of once again seeing the South. Instead, he was offended by the "swiss cheese architecture" of ubiquitous Holiday Inns and equally inescapable Howard Johnson Restaurants where "music appears to emanate from the toilets." Crippled by age and pain, weighted down by his Churchillian frame. Wilson could still find the energy to laugh...
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