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“Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?”

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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.

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I play to lift a city, and raise a banner.

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They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.

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A sudden gust of rain blew over them and then another - as if small liquid clouds were bouncing along the land. Lightning entered the sea far off and the air blew full of crackling thunder. The table cloths blew around the pillars. They blew and blew and blew. The flags twisted around the red chairs like live things, the…

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