The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the sort of shit that it demanded.
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I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
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