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And this afternoon's mail brought me the first issue of Moral Relativism Magazine, in which my poem "Abite Laeti, Abite Locupletes" appears between thoughts on Susan Bordo and a reprint of Ambrose Bierce. This is an unusual poem for me; it is nonfantastic, political, and one of the best things I think I wrote all last year. The magazine looks terrific, too.

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I have, and thank you for the suggestion. I shall think on the topic.
In the meantime, I respond with a small gift in the form of recommended reading. Do you know The Magus by John Fowles? Chapter 53 (Ελευθερία) can be read as a discrete short story and is of especial relevance to the question at hand.
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I have read The Magus, but not in years; I'll give it a re-read. Thanks!