he was known , well known , along the highways in hiding that are traveled by the poor and the mad , by the professional revolutionaries and by those who have been taught to hate so well that their hate shows on their faces like harelips and they are unwanted except by others like them , who welcome them to cheap rooms with slogans and posters on the walls , to basements where lengths of sawed-off pipe are held in padded vises while they are stuffed with high explosives , to back rooms where lunatic plans are laid : to kill a cabinet member , to kidnap the child of a visiting dignitary , or to break into a boardroom meeting of standard oil with grenades and machine guns and murder in the name of the people .