"So if you ever try to rekindle any patriotic feelings in me, you'll be disappointed. My first article in The

"So if you ever try to rekindle any patriotic feelings in me, you'll be disappointed. My first article in The Independence was about Taldor. The magazine was almost closed as a result of the scandal that followed – and it would have closed, were it not for crowds of my supporters, marching in protest under the windows of the publishing house, making its editors change their minds."