April 24, 2014
"To survive spiritually as a member of an organisation, one must possess some special talent which makes one so indispensable that almost any outrageous behavior is pardoned. Prostitutes and opera singers survive revolutions."

— W.H. Auden in The Prolific and the Devourer

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