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    With a Vengeance
    With a Vengeance
    With a Vengeance
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    With a Vengeance

    By J. B. Woodley and Tom Knoth

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      With a Vengeance - J. B. Woodley

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      Title: With a Vengeance

      Author: J. B. Woodley

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      Release Date: November 14, 2009 [EBook #30475]

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      With a Vengeance

      By J. B. WOODLEY

      Keep this in mind in teaching apprentices: They are future journeymen—and even masters!

      October 10, 2119

      New San Francisco

      Today, at precisely 9:50 a.m., Kyle became First Imperator of Terra. His coup was so fantastically direct and facile that I am almost tempted to believe that old cliche the time was right.

      Well, however badly it can be expressed, I suppose the world was ripe for this sort of thing. I can remember when much the same used to happen in elections. One man would win over another by a tremendous majority, and historians would then set about to show how the time was right.

      Why do I persist in tormenting myself with that phrase! Analytically, I might say I resent this new aristocracy of politics. Specifically, I might say I resent Kyle.

      And both are true, both are true.

      This swing, though, to absolute monarchy, complete with the installation of the

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