Finished Folds (241—260)
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2By then, the miner was not in a position to object. So many varieties of poverty, he thought, as he looked at his trampled limbs and head below, but it's still a wonderful world.
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2found favor with Andrei B. Flavin, a young plutocrat and cosmopolitan hip-hop sensation. Most people were happy with Putin, but some also thought maybe Flavin's time had come.
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3emuria, who charmed the other restaurateurs with his mild wit and fine manners, when the chef came out and grabbed the PM by the throat for some subtle and negligible slight that t
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4..." Alexa brought down the storm shutters. "That path will profit no-one." Thank goodness for my niece, though, who was staying with us. Kids these days and their DNA tech. My arm
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4Wow. Depth bomb. Of course Richie and I knew each other and we were on good enough terms, but that he came over to sit by me and relaxed before he gave up the ghost really led me
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2Yeah, whatever.
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3had decided to become localized and temporally linear when all its contemporaries were burbling about in the quantum foam. There was joy in gray wood and muddy roads and glass
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6One brisk and hazy but bright morning between winter and summer, Cookie Monster, E.T., and Yoda walked into a Charbucks and got into the line.
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4were on the verge of a deal, when Santa asked, "So where's the milk and cookies?" The DarkNet went wild
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3the old vertical fire-escapes. I had no idea cats could do that! Thank goodness the building's windows had been modernized so that no-one could get out or in.
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4"Not unless you're a Zazipop Critter," chuckled the whale. "Behold!" The whale's stage hands wheeled out a fishbowl, in which something floated. "Looks like a dead moth to me."
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1After a pause, my counselor said, "Well, you do seem healthily self-aware, Mr. Usher and/or Omegacron. Finding oneself in a gray area is a common occurrence for many. And I believe
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5"No no no! We need to cream that brain before they send it to the NSA. Not that we are merely complicated automatons with easily decoded mRNA memories, but still."
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4Reductionism is a copout to gloss over that roughness. Dust to dust, star-sparkle dust-devils, rivers to the sea, whatever -- long long stretches of living in horror is not right.
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4but as an arcane pattern of CheezeWiz on a basket of flies. Mice my eye! Show me their hidey holes!" Detective Dodo's boss Captain Grackle set aside the mice-n-rice takeout
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1"But Ma, all my friends have internet and streaming!" Nora cried. "Well, this is what we could afford, darling." A moment later, The Mandible in its club chair vibrated into view.
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4his acolytes and future publishers (after his demise), but Shakespeare Revenant went round in kitty fur appareled to change their pasts so that he might have a nice rest. Even so,
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3far Arcturus, but this was no surprise to the spider crystals there. The Arcturians looked aside politely in the overworld as only they could do, and welcomed the people of Earth
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5the controversial resurgence of neighbor-house frying pan rock to really crystallize the transgressive yet transcendiary [not a word] that The Dark Point had to offer the world. In
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7remembered the taste of...something. The waiter roused me from my reveries. "Sir? Here is your coffee and smoke bomb, and the sirloin burger with library paste." Outside the diner,