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The Novel that Unravels Democracy

Past Present Future

CHAPTER

The Watcher Over a Day, Amerigo

Roland Baines' faith in lessons is the enormous happiness he has in the private life and the gathering gloom he has about public life. It's quite easy to speak one's political beliefs or moral questions, it's easy to be gloomy. If you're guilty of too much optimism, you're expressing too much satisfaction with the status quo. And in a way that's what happens in The Watcher over the course of a day, Amerigo.

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