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STARTING POINT. In "The Bird of Serbia," Mr. Street desired to say through the medium of fiction a certain thing. "Perhaps I wanted to say: ‘Nothing is so small or so nasty that it can not be made to serve an autocratic ruler in carrying out his designs. ' So, then, I took as my symbol for smallness and nastiness, the louse. And then I set out to prove that lice could serve the autocrat who wished to start a war. I wanted to show how very true that theory is, and I should say that the quality of truth in that story -- the convincingness of it -- is the best thing about it. " -- _Julian Street._
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