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                                    September 11, 2006


     "But now he noticed again the peculiar atmosphere
     that had put him on his guard: there was a
     difference between the crowd and the sum of its
     persons.  This was something beyond his previous
     experience, and he didn't like it: for he was used
     to hearing each person speak out his mind, in
     conversation or in large committees run according
     to the rules of parliamentary procedure.  But here
     the people had gathered at random and had been
     stunned, and his own way to the spectacle of the
     giantess brought low, according to his character or
     powers of interpretation or peculiar circumstances;
     but the people were reacting in a different way
     altogether, with a unanimity in which no one seemed
     to take a part and with a passion of which no one
     was aware."

          -- p. 165, section 4 "What the Crowd Felt",
          Ch 3 "A Moody Adolescent",
          Book 2 "The State of Nature"

          Paul Goodman
          EMPIRE_CITY



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