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   everyone thought you were.  I argued that you weren't supporting the   
   Donkey and his Stink to troll the rest of us; you were doing it because   
   you truly believed that you were standing up for the proverbial "little   
   guy."   
      
   I said that you didn't publish the book of Donkey poetry just so that he   
   could say that he was published too, but because you actually believed   
   that there was value in even the most poorly written poetry if the   
   speaker was expressing something real to him. You believed that poetry   
   was as much the property of the uneducated, downtrodden masses as it was   
   of the pampered academics, and that finding value in the writings of a   
   homeless drunk was a way of celebrating poetry's universal nature.   
      
   I believe you said that it brought a tear to your eye while you were   
   reading it.   
      
   And that's exactly the sort of thing that "One Small Voice" Toohey would   
   do. The only difference that you actually believe the socialist ideals   
   behind what you're doing -- while Toohey was doing such things *solely*   
   to exploit the "little men" of the world as his tools.   
      
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   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)