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Curmudgeoness

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35. Funny, I read it like a cautionary tale.

Reply to Glassunion (Reply #22)

Wed Feb 5, 2014, 09:55 PM

Feb 2014

But I also think that there was too much truth in the book, it came from what was already happening but not on that same scale. The scale was the wishful thinking of the ruling class....then and now.

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Funny, I read the book a few times. Every time as sat down to read it, I knew it was fiction. Glassunion Feb 2014 #22

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