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Thursday, December 09, 2004
The Lure of Evil
Paul Theroux, The Kingdom by the Sea (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983), p. 140:
No one knows more inner turmoil or is so susceptible to the romance of wrong-doing than the law-abiding person.