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Michael Swanwick - Urban life was thus founded upon...
Urban life was thus founded upon the principle of deliberately confounding those who were not a part of it. Civilization was a strategy of exclusion. (Michael Swanwick)

Urban life was thus founded upon the principle of deliberately confounding those who were not a part of it. Civilization was a strategy of exclusion.

Michael Swanwick

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