Their polemics are received each morning in the mail. Each is closely typed, densely argued and presented with great skill, wit and flourish. Each has been sealed and dated, as befits all official correspondence. She takes the scissors to each one. She slices them up into appealing shapes and then reassembles them. She mails them to her friends, and they hang them on their walls as decorations. It is rare that her detractors ever find out, but when they do, this is the stinging cause for further polemic.
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