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Perhaps Bug and Tony should have been allies. But any successful structure of domination always gets the weak to reject each other.

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Perhaps Bug and Tony should have been allies. But any successful structure of domination always gets the weak to reject each other.

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About William T. Vollmann

William Tanner Vollmann (born July 28, 1959) is an American novelist, journalist, war correspondent, short story writer, and essayist. He won the 2005 National Book Award for Fiction with the novel Europe Central.