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Prairie Gates

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6. The time of peace protests will be viewed, as Pynchon described it, as a

Reply to dgauss (Reply #1)

Tue Sep 16, 2025, 08:51 AM

15 hrs ago

"brief parenthesis of light" in an otherwise uninterrupted history of viciousness. What we are seeing now isn't a change, except when viewed through the lens of that brief moment. It is the relentless continuity of American history.

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