The real story of our times is seldom told in the horse-puckey-filled memoirs of dopey, self-serving presidents or generals, but in the outrageous, demented lives of guys like Lenny Bruce, Giordano Bruno, Scott Fitzgerald — and Paul Krassner. The burrs under society's saddle. The pains in the ass.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The real story of our times is seldom told in the horse-puckey-filled memoirs of dopey, self-serving presidents or generals, but in the outrageous, demented lives of guys like Lenny Bruce, Giordano Bruno, Scott Fitzgerald — and Paul Krassner. The burrs under society's saddle. The pains in the ass." in the context of "Harlan Ellison, as attributed in Paul Krassner, Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counterculture (1993), fore-matter in the 2012 Soft Skull Press edition" to mean that wisdom is timeless.