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[Mark Kohut]

David Ewers writes:
page 9
The crime of "Anonymity" - as in posting publicly without attaching
your identity to your words, seems prescient to me, considering so
much on-line debate today, 'flaming', etc.

nice link...I just saw it as a metaphor for the upcoming
--1800s--future of strangers everywhere...
One could not be Anonymous easily in times of small towns, farms,
cities that were real neighborhoods, generally.......notice he got
caught.

See Baudelaire on streets of Paris, for example...the anonymity of
most industrial revolution work in factories, etc....

Another way he is a heretic?...he is the character caught between two
worlds, the Christian and the
coming modernity...
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