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Entries from January 2009

It Was

Zukofsky, Louis

January 28th, 2009 · 3 Comments

I was sitting here eating little sugary hearts with terms of endearment printed on them. They’re pretty popular with the young people, and surely you must know them: cheap things, sort of disgusting in the way that totally fructosified food product is, but sort of terrific for the same reason. And besides, they’re candied hearts, [...]

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The Hyannis Port Story

Vonnegut, Kurt

January 12th, 2009 · 5 Comments

I was talking to the resident genius here about false memories and the publishment thereof, when an idea emerged, an idea with such potential for industry salvation that there’s no choice but to document it here, in the interest of knowledge open-sourcing, or whatever. The idea involved all these made-up memoirs floating about these days, [...]

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