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“Meet Me on the Barricades” is a work of fiction and the characters in it are not intended to represent any actual person, living or dead. In a few chapters, however, certain well-known public persons appear as hallucinatory figures in the minds of two characters, but these must not be inter- preted as realistic portrayals. This literary device, for which the author makes no boast of originality, in this case is sim- ply a method of presenting social criticism within the frame- work of the novel. As such, it definitely comes within the realm of public interest. Any person who chooses to identify himself with any of the characters of this book, does so at

his own peril. C. Y. H.