But as I struggled through the essay I decided I didn't want to write about my life, not even for five hundred words.

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As I write these words, a bus load of demonstrators is wending its way up the valley from Zurich.

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"But you did, " is my rejoinder, because minutes after hearing them extemporizing on a topic of the day I step aside and write down what they told me, in their own words.

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