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Men do not like to die. But from time to time, given that they do not have to knot the rope themselves, they like the kill.
page 220 of The Judges of the Secret Court by David Stacton. Most of the book is as blunt as this quote, and as ugly as you might think a book about John Wilkes Booth and Lincoln’s assassination and the chaotic aftermath of Washington DC and the South after the Civil War would be. It is relentless, and painful, and it is beautiful. Read it immediately.

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