These last months have made me expert. It was gunfire, and it came from your saloon.
Has not the press a duty, Merrick, qualifying its accounts in time of war?
Are we at war now here in the camp? Has that fact been suppressed as well? Absent formal declaration, Al, information which affects this community is not my prerogative to disseminate. To do so is my sacred responsibility.
Whores currently disseminating a dose, for example?
To inform within decency's limits. We've had this discussion before.
Citizens better die postulating than touch indecent ink.
Make a list of the infected whores and account for this morning's gunfire, and I'll publish it all.
I won't, fucking Merrick, because neither's to my fucking interests. Just as you owning a print press proves only an interest in the truth, meaning up to a fucking point, slightly more than us others maybe, but short of a fucking anointing or the shouldering of a sacred burden - unless of course the print press was gift of an angel. I'd want to be there for that hand-off myself. Maybe you should print an extra saying the speeches are on again.
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