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It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

Als je niemand bent en niets hebt, ben je op problemen aangewezen om je zelfrespect te behouden.

[Has it been a success though, I ask.] I don't know, ... I don't have another first novel that wasn't pushed electronically to compare it to. But the book itself is doing very well. Looking at other publishers, a good example is Baen Books , who do a lot of multi volume series of books. From experience, they know how much volume 13 should sell based on the sales of boook 12. So when volume 13 comes out, they bundled a CD-Rom with eBook versions of the first 12 books. They also hosted these eBooks online for free. When this happens, the sales of volume 13 were beyond expectation, and volumes 1 through 12 see a bump in sales as well.