“The fifties were supposed to be a golden age when the pig had everything his way. That's what TV and the government wants us to believe: there was a time when no one made trouble. What about Kerouac, you assholes? What about Neal?”

— Rudy Rucker

Source: The Sex Sphere (1983), p. 130

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