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The closure of the libraries has hit me very hard. Lately I've been reading the short stories of Hawthorne. This morning I read one set during the tyranny, as he described it, of James II. The governor of Massachusetts set in motion a parade of a company of soldiers. The street was lined with people who considered themselves oppressed. An old man walked out in the middle of the street and stopped the troops' advance. The governor threatened to trample him, but seeing what that would do to the crowd, instead turned his little army around and left instead. It turned out the old man was some kind of phantom of liberty sent from heaven. In contrast, the other day I saw a montage of film of the police attacking and knocking down old white men, including one who couldn't get out of the way fast enough because he walked with a cane, and, of course, the 75 year old Antifa agent who was attempting to bring down the whole of the police's communications network with his "scanner" which was cleverly disguised to look like an ordinary cell phone.