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...But of these sophisms and elenchs of merchandise I skill not...
Milton, Areopagitica

Except he had found the
standing sea-rock that even this last
Temptation breaks on; quieter than death but lovelier; peace
that quiets the desire even of praising it.

Jeffers, Meditation On Saviors


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1.9.04

Cars smoke. Only it's invisible so they don't. But they do, and if you sat in a room with a running car it would damage you more quickly and more permanently than if you sat in a room with a smoker. But you don't, you don't sit in a room with your car. You sit in a room inside your car.
They occupy every square inch of the outside world, even as smoking is outlawed everywhere.
Cars smoke. The streets are rivers of poison gas that should make second-hand smoke trivial.
There's something very strange and more than a little spooky about the vicious campaign to end smoking taking place in a world dominated by cars and gasoline.

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