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Marvin Kolodny responded with a boyish grin and offered his hand. An American flag has been tattooed on his right forearm. On a scroll circling the flagpole was the following inscription

— Thomas M. Disch The Man Who Had No Idea (and other stories) (1982)

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Overthrow | the United States | Government | by Force & | Violence | "The Man Who Had No Idea" (originally published 1978).

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