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A Sleepwalker Racing a Ferrari Through the Louvre

I met Trump in a dream recently.  I had been invited to the White House for a face-to-face.  He was very reserved and mild-mannered.  He was also exhausted.  I had no idea ahead of time the purpose of our meeting.  Turned out he wanted me to create whatever story about him I chose, using video footage of his daily life taken by White House shooters.

I felt he knew that I was an adversary, that I thought he was unfit to be president, but I felt he also knew (via my essays) that I didn’t hate him, or even dislike him, and in fact felt quite compassionately toward him.  That’s why he had reached out to me, it seemed.

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"The push to change the words “nigger” and “injun” in Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, because the so-called offensive nature of those terms might limit today’s readership and appreciation of that literary classic, is a wonderful opportunity to reflect on how we avoid taking responsibility for our feelings––and therefore miss the chance to become more awake, more whole, more useful friends to one another."

The Essay: The Gold in Niggers and Injuns