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public court record. Particularly when the analysis is so<br />

compellingly negative, and at least possibly true. A.A.<br />

Hayes, for example, could easily have written his to<br />

himself: "You chicken-snot snob. You loser.<br />

Why don't you kill your wife? She's killing you. You<br />

like that? Hard to kill a dead man, right, pal? No-ball<br />

liberal." Hayes could go even further: "As Lime says<br />

(nobody's all bad), someone ought to get on the stick.<br />

Am I so morally lackadaisical, so stripped of ambition,<br />

that a scoop can be flung in my face like a chocolate pie<br />

and not arouse in me even the curiosity to comment,<br />

'Ah, chocolate'? Apparently so. Some paranoid! I have<br />

let drop the dropping of the highway, the breaking of<br />

my window, the smashup of my life, without so much as<br />

a who, what, when, where, or how. Not to mention<br />

why. Some journalist! Some spy! Don't I care?<br />

Apparently not. My whole life could go by while I sat<br />

on the pot reading Journal of the Plague Year with the<br />

door locked to keep the world away."<br />

The editor knew of a half-dozen other Dingleyans<br />

who had received the letters. But there were still others<br />

he had not heard of:

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