Well, why not turn to the Bearded One, the obscure scribbler of his age, Marx himself?

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Some nouns, such as journaliste, can vary the gender according to the scribbler's sex: le or la journaliste.

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Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.

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Imagine, for a moment, an obscure scribbler today in a garret somewhere trying to outline an ideology of the future that could provide a realistic path toward a world with healthy middle-class societies and robust democracies.

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