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It’ s on the moral and ethical level of those whoexcuse Nixon’ s criminal acts by saying, “ Hell, everybody does it!” No, It wasn’t! Youhaven’t paid for it, you just used it. Very true. “ Man on Spikes” book review (heavily abridged version) originally appeared as “ Slave to the Majors” inThe San Francisco Chronicle Book Review; copyright © 1998 by The Kilimanjaro Corporation.

I was flabbergasted. Then tin on cast iron. He wasn’ twriting any more; his mother— whom he’ d lived with through all of his adult life, in a resident hotel inManhattan— had recently died; and he had only recently begun getting out and around. ” He slouched after me, up theaisle.