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S1. Ep 2: Dirty Books

Things Fell Apart

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The New Text Books Are Not All Black and White

Alice's crusade was being filled not only by belief, but by suspicion. Why had the new york publishers chosen west virginia? She said she wanted to choose something that everyone would agree was objectionable. A poem about a bus journey where a spontaneous orgy breaks out because the world is about to end at lunch time in a nuclear war. Everybody changed partners and started making love with each other. In the bus was quiver with these white bodies. It sounds like he was one of the beat poets, like alan ginsburg or you would know. But have you never heard thisno, no, i don't know that poem at all. The next page says, every

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