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Quoted: Hunter Thompson on the Dewey Decimal System


Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 (Hunter S. Thompson)

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The ego is the crucial factor here, but ego is a hard thing to put on paper—especially on that 3x5 size McGovern recommends. File cards are handy for precinct canvassing, and for people who want to get heavy into the Dewey Decimal System, but they are not much good for cataloguing things like Lust, Ambition, or Madness.