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ON VIOLENCE
Pause, Now, and Consider Some Tentative Conclusions About the Meaning of This Mass Perversion Called Porno-Violence
What it is and where it comes from and who put the hair on the walls.
July
1
1967
TOM WOLFE
Pause, Now, and Consider Some Tentative Conclusions About the Meaning of This Mass Perversion Called Porno-Violence
TOM WOLFE
July
1
1967
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ON VIOLENCE
Pause, Now, and Consider Some Tentative Conclusions About the Meaning of This Mass Perversion Called Porno-Violence
What it is and where it comes from and who put the hair on the walls.
July
1
1967
TOM WOLFE
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