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When the cab dropped Frank at his address at seven that evening, he noticed the lights were on in Michiko’s apartment.
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It shouldn’t take that long to count/
to six but when the six are cats, arithmetic/
assumes Heisenbergian properties/
as the objects counted defy the count.
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176887
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He died in the ditch he dug.
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176831
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Let us be stranded in the Andes and have to eat human flesh or at least toothpaste to survive! Let there be an earthquake! Let there be a flood! Let there be a tornado, a new ice age, an invasion from Mars. Only: let me survive.
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176864
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But I had learned from ingesting Roberto’s glitter-eyed fear, it could make you never close enough, and then, never far enough away. And both at the same time.
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176760
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The surface temperature of the sun is 9,800 degrees Fahrenheit.
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176742
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The villagers smash in a garage door with their heads, causing some to bleed from the ears and mouth.
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1767115
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I enjoyed the talking part though
rambling on and on for lord knows
why or how
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17671512
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Effie reckons the river her sister keeps asking about, the Great Pee Dee, was named after some Indians.
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1767106
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They couldn’t have done it better if they’d waved guns around in the air.
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176700
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I took up smoking just to show the world how easy it was to quit. It’s been five months now, and my wife is wondering why I haven’t yet.
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176777
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can they approve, our/gods in our wallets? only/when we tell them to.
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1767105
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"Some Purgatory in order, innit?"
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176752
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The last time I saw Jackson, I didn’t write down the set list. This time I didn’t write down the set list, either.
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176701
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Be it a moment of zen, an epiphany, a vision, or even an ill-tempered chinese food inflicted dream, I've seen what's been shrouded carefully behind you… ahead of me.
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176721
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Lake Berryessa, CALIFORNIA It was dusk on the 27th of September when the Stocky Man finished his work and trudged casually back across the…
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176733
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You were sitting on dark leather meringue, wearing slit ivy, epilated thighs sliding through, roots showing beneath your anaemic skin, fighting with the pale bluegreen of your veins. Quills extended from your left hand, bent about 10.2 degrees or so.
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176785
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When the medicine started to interrupt her sleep, she made elaborate breakfasts – sweet potato pancakes, crepes with homemade cream cheese filling, omelets with spinach and brie, hand-rolled croissants stuffed with bittersweet chocolate. It was in those e
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176650
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the moon is the pupil of the cave’s eye
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176692
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What is the meaning of you?
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176600
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I wear my gun so it shows,
so everyone knows.
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1766119
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If you find a nickel-plated Colt .38 lying on top of a worn copy of King Lear, you’ll know who you’re dealing with.
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176621
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“We’re on our way to gold country to find the American Dream.” No point in mentioning the huge prairie dogs, the ones swarming and screeching beneath the horses in their Hell’s Angel gear and Nixon masks.
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176699
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Our Irish tradition is rich in Yeats, drenched in Bushmills.
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17662311
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176621
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“What would you get? What should you give a lady who’s one hundred for her birthday?”
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176621
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Penny followed the woman into the warm, dark interior of her home, which smelled strongly of cumin and other familiar spices she couldn’t name. Penny noted that the tia’s hair had turned almost completely white and had grown very long since Penny had last
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176620
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Joseph K. ran a publishing house in the shadow of the Castle.
Perhaps “publishing house” is too grand a title. Joseph K. kept a battery of six or seven (depending on repairs) manual typewriters, a crate of carbon paper, and a large stapling machine
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17661910
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Falling//
is something that comes quite naturally/
to puffed up things. Like the soufflé
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176600
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It was where the “Suits” worked. I didn’t want to go there, I didn’t want to be there, but in those days one did what one was supposed to do.
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