'deathsquads'inBrazil;or
thattheMafiacanburn
downahotelinthe
UnitedStatestofacilitatea
racket.Buthowcanwe
knowwhatpurposewasultimately
servedbythe'madkillers
ofBrabant'?[11]Itis
hardtoapplytheprinciple
Cuiprodest?wheresomany
activeinterestsaresowell
concealed.Theresultisthat
undertheruleofthe
integratedspectacle,weliveand
dieattheconfluenceof
innumerablemysteries.

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rumorsacquireinstantly
--oratworstafter
threeorfourrepetitions--
theindisputablestatusofage-old
historicalevidence.Bythelegendary
authorityofthespectacleof
theday,oddcharacterseliminated
insilencecanreappearas
fictivesurvivors,whosereturncan
alwaysbeconjuredupor
computed,andprovedbythe
meresay-soofspecialists.They
existsomewherebetweentheAcheron
andtheLethe,thesedead
whomthespectaclehasnot