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Why Only Revolutions Will Not Be Televised

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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The author picked a perfect title for this novel. Only Revolutions says it all. And what is a revolution? Ah, a revolution is the violent overthrow of a current regime. But I'm thinking of a different meaning of 'revolution'—namely the process of going round and round but never arriving anywhere.

The first thing that spins around in this novel is the phy…

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