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bicycle
Oct 23, 2013
My favourite Assange thing is still and will always be when he got paid an advance to write a book then backed out and kept the money so they printed what little they had from him anyway.

This is also a v good (but long) article written by his ghost-writer:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n05/andrew-ohagan/ghosting

quote:

One of his strategies was to invent, on the spot, new avant-garde styles that the book should adopt. One day he said the book should contain ‘parables’ and he suggested the paragraphs should be numbered, like verses. ‘You’ve got to get yourself and staff to see the book as a priority,’ I said. ‘A great book will set things right. It will constitute a much bigger thing than turf wars or Tweets.’

‘But it can’t be the priority,’ Julian said. ‘Ending wars and starting a revolution in Libya is the priority.’

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