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Her novels argue that criminals must pay for their actions--no forgiveness, no rehabilitation, no excuses whatsoever--but she's also admitted to bouts with childhood molestation, bulimia, and bipolar mood swings, and she has asked that people who suffer such traumas be given a little TLC.
If all politics is a lie We tell ourselves, if People who think they are Conservative have horrible Anarchic lives, raping children And people who think They are radical, and Tell you so, typically, Are repressed, authoritarian, and Thinly frigid in their Personal bearings, Leaving the world on both sides To be divided up between Aggressive territorial types Finding ideological excuses To kill other people's children-- If all this is patently, Obviously so, so that Only poetry, and not Politics can save us-- Is there any hope for us then?
None of these excuses is necessary.
[Mary Imber went on to chide the Editor for a number of typographical errors-- literals in English English--(e.g., Ford Maddox Ford for ... Madox ...) for which only apologies, no excuses, are offered.
The missing three dropped out with excuses of "my wife is sick" (one person) and "meeting is running long" (two).