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            "...................His Royal Decrees were printed free of charge in
the newspapers, the currency He printed was accepted in the saloons,
local shopkeepers paid the modest taxes He occasionally demanded and
on at least one occasion a tailor furnished Him with a new set of
Royal finery.
        Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and
        Queen Victoria which they took seriously.
        One night a gang of vigilantes gathered for a pogrom against
        San Francisco's Chinatown. All that stood in their way was the
        solitary figure of Norton.
A sane man would not have been there in the first place. A rational man
would have tried to reason with them. A moralist would have scolded them.
A man as daft as Norton usually seemed would have loudly ordered them to
cease and desist in the name of His Royal Imperial authority. All such
tacks would probably have been futile, and Norton resorted to none of them.
        He simply bowed His head in silent prayer.
        The vigilantes dispersed.
        Discordians believe everybody should live like Norton. So write your
        legislative representatives demanding harsh laws with teeth in them
        requiring all people of all faiths -- especially Christians and
        especially on Sunday -- to live as Joshua A. Norton did."

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