From: jdnicoll@panix.com   
      
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   "I used to like Americans," said Byron with amused savagery. "I'm   
   an American. It used to feel great to go to them and say, 'Here's   
   a solution to a problem that hasn't happened yet.' So how do they   
   react? They sniff daisies and snort coke. And think they are smart   
   asses; even my son. Zimmerman, if an American jumps out of an airplane,   
   you can't sell him a parachute until after he hits the ground. I don't   
   even flap about it anymore. Americans are manic freaks who slack off   
   suicidally between crises and then work their elbows to a bone to   
   meet a crisis after it has bashed them in the face--all the time   
   bitching bitterly that no one ever told them the fist was on the way."   
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