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probably in an autopsy room elsewhere in the building, preparing to cut.More than a year ago, they had met at an anarchists’ mixer at the university where Corky taught. The catered food had been second-rate, the drinks slightly watered down, and the flower arrangements less than inspired, but the company had been engaging.On the third ring, Roman answered, and after Corky identified himself, he said, “Guess where I am?”“You’ve crawled up your own ass and can’t get out,” Roman said.He had an unconventional sense thing this isn’t a pay phone,” Corky said. “I don’t have any change, and none of the cheap stiffs here will lend me a quarter.”“Then it must be a faculty function. Nobody’s more miserly than a bunch of anticapitalist academics wallowing in the fat checks from the taxpayers.”“Some might see a wide vein of meanness in
Corky said with a severe note that wasn’t characteristic of him.[166] “They wouldn’t be mistaken. Cruelty is my creed, remember?”Roman was a Satanist. Hail the Prince of Darkness, that kind of stuff. Not all anarchists were also Satanists, but many Satanists were also anarchists.Corky knew one Buddhist who was an anarchist—a conflicted young woman. Otherwise, in his experience, the vast majority of anarchists were atheists.
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