Anybody with an alibi they can tell me? I said. No one said anything. Hot dog! I said.

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On May 21, 1792, the Attorney General filed an information against Paine charging him with seditious libel.

The whole Planet of the Apes set-up has been ripe for metaphor – from slavery and Afro-American revolution to European conquest of the Americas, even the war on terror. But mercifully, there's no big subtext being troweled on here.