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Bad days my memory functions no better than an out-of-focus kaleidoscope, but other days me recall is painfully perfect.
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Damn damn damn.
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I'm rambling again. Wandering off the point. But this is the true story of my wasted life...
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Let me put it this way. Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank filled with the disgruntled progeny of defeated peoples.
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But the truth is, nothing delights me more than a biography of one of the truly great that proves he or she was an absolute shit.
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There's no such thing as a superhuman. But the only thing I got to tell you, if you take a dog and kick him around he's got to be alert, he's got to be more sharper than you. Well, we've been kicked around for two thousand years. We're not more smarter, we're more alert.
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If Canada had a soul (a doubtful proposition, Moses thought) then it wasn't to be found in Batoche or the Plains of Abraham or Fort Walsh or Charlottetown or Parliament Hill, but in The Caboose and thousands of bars like it that knit the country together from Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, to the far side of Vancouver Island.
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Without a doubt, it [Canada] is the land God gave to Cain.
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All the same, it strikes me as unfair that I still have to defend myself against her moral judgements. My continuing need for her approbation is pathetic. Twice now I have stopped myself on the street to remonstrate with her, a crazy old coot talking to himself.
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