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In a new documentary on Harold Humes, Peter Matthiessen admits that The Paris Review was originally a cover for his CIA involvement. (I love typing factual sentences that sound like I made them up.)
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"So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation." - Montaigne
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