In hindsight, when you have the luxury of sitting at your desk with a nice cup of coffee and a fresh donut reading about this, you will likely wince and shake your head.

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At night he worked at the computer desk in the bedroom, before getting into bed and reading a few pages of the book on his nightstand.

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He arrived early in his brown corduroy coat with a book taken from the library, copied all its pages on the Xerox machine, and sat at his desk reading what looked to passersby like the honest pages of business.

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