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Days of War, Nights of Love: Crimethink For Beginners by CrimethInc.
page 56


1814

[edit] Percy Shelley and Mary Godwin Elope

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Percy Bysshe Shelley, a young anarchist who was to go down in history as the greatest of Romantic poets, came to visit William Godwin, an aging writer of proto-anarchist philosophy, and ended up absconding with his daughter—showing once and for all that even a poet knows how to turn theory into practice better than a philosopher!

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