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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: "Starter Villain" by John Scalzi
Date: Sat, 10 May 2025 13:00:49 -0400 (EDT)
Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)
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Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>Well, IIRC, the French solved that problem a while back.
>
>Perhaps we can borrow Madame La Guillotine from them for a while ...

Doesn't work.  At least it didn't work for the French.  They killed all
the royals, then within a short time established new royals.  It happens
far too often...  the Russians did the same thing in 1917....
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."