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So I thought I should study this concept to see of what import it might be. And of course to be a revolutionary one had to study China to some extent. Rumors could be used to sow seeds of discord, which of course was why it was banned. We had many uses for rumor negative and positive. The key to it was to know powerful gossips and feed them information. One knew it would be spread far and wide. The nice thing about leadership was you didn't have to do any of the dirty work. I knew it at the time, but of course would not admit it. One was too important for mundane things like going to demonstrations, community meetings, organizing, canvassing or doing anything real, which took time and effort. I wasn't a politician anyway. At that moment I was an artist. The politics was political art.

There were people downstairs in the pottery shop. There were people upstairs, as the second floor neighbors. The building was two units. A new woman was moving in upstairs. Let us call her Anka. She asked Ford and I to take care of her mattress for her, when it was delivered. Well she didn't exactly ask, it was more like a command with sexual overtones. She was good looking, a blonde and wore glasses sometimes, and in her early or mid-twenties. I caught on right away. This was my dom. I liked her command. But what could I do? Ford and I turned her down. We weren't going to be ordered around. Well I would have liked to have been. But I could not. That role would not accord to all the many roles I was playing, and to this whole shebang I had created. And there were people everywhere.

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