A Lesion of Dissent
A new novel by
Karl Drobnic
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"We bicycled back to the sea and climbed a small hill to a little promontory that jutted out over one end of the beach. Below, dark fishermen were letting out their nets. On the promontory, we plotted Winona's death."

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Author Karl Drobnic

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Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas
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"There's a lot here," the lawyer said. "I worked on the defense for Aptheker, you know."
"For who?"
"One of the victims of McCarthy," Edna said. "He'd have got the death penalty, but Jerry found some law. They had to drop the death penalty."
"Oh, you give me too much credit, Edna," Jerry said. "But there's an issue here. Habeas corpus. If we can file you habeas corpus, then federal law applies. We can go all the way to the Supreme Court."

Maybe it is the crocodiles...

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"Shush," Carol said. "I don't want to hear it until you can tell me slow, like the lovemaking you promised me that night on the shore by the mosque at Wadi Halfa."
"When the last rays of the sun were splintering off the crescent."
"And we were going to swim out, but we didn't know about the crocodiles."
Maybe it is the crocodiles that deserve much more of our attention than I, at least, have ever given them. They have endured millions of years upon this earth living by one simple principle - to devour everything that comes before the sweep of their jaws. A crocodile does not hesitate.

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He fixed it for Aptheker...

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I passed by her as she came back out onto the patio. "Whatever it is that's so important, do what Jerry says to do," she said. "He fixed it for Aptheker."
"All right," I said. "I'll follow Jerry's advice."
I had looked up Aptheker. He had gone to prison. I wondered if Edna remembered that.

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Jamming at the Fillmore

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The musicians had barely missed a beat as I promised the crowd that together we could put an end to war. When I paused after "put an end to war", the guitars riffed. The crowd came back around to it along with the guitars. "Put an end to war," they sang. They could dance to that. So I kept at it, promising them magic.
"Jane Fonda is coming," I said, "to put an end to war." The riffs came round.
"Cesar Chavez is coming," I said, "to put an end to war." The riffs came round.
"Joan Baez is coming," I said, "to put an end to war." Whom did I not promise?

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