Finished Folds (501—520)
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2I said at one point, but it was written on the wind. I left my camel at an oasis and wandered back into my new home. The sun, the heat, the cold, the stars. I left my body
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3sea monkeys with veggie bits. At this we were astonished. "Mikey, he likes it!" Mikey had been subsisting on tea, ramen and cat chow to fund his VR pedal setup. His Ono-Sendai deck
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2No sleeping like a log for the likes of him. No, only the dozing of the departed, the siesta of the six-feet-under, the nap of the never-lamented. Until he woke in the bullock cart
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5Unmoving, remote, inscrutable, The Man in the Woods would sometimes startle various hikers as they passed his way and left either spooked or frustrated at his nonresponsiveness. O
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5you a regimen to be followed which I'm sure you would not because of the frustratingly low rate of patient compliance. So what exactly would you like us doctors to do for you?" I h
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3and before I even had a chance to press Enter, someone tapped me on the shoulder. "You want conversation-piece horrors delivered while you sleep for the sake of workplace palaver?"
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3The Waterboys agreed to meet The Bookhouse Boys at the Roadhouse. "Harry, I'm feeling edgy and somewhat deckled. You?" The traffic light changed. "I'm not sure, Coop. This
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3had been affixed upon the dining room table with silver nails. The pizza was surrounded by a circle of dead flies. A burger perhaps, still in its wrapper, seemed coyly to feign a
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0Zhivago's translation was more poetic and elusive, whereas Fyssovich's was clinical and straightforward. But the Russian on the label made no sense. "Should we open the container?"
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4disrupt the synchronicity of my daughter's TV spot coming on each time I entered a sports bar? "The loneliness of a prophet - the convenience of an aerosol," The Queen of Coventry
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3other monkeys would accept him, but he was shunned there as well. But one night, Ah-Ah-Eee reassured him with monkey pats that we are all star-born flowers in this world. He nearly
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3ed into view in her holotank, his cane in one flipper, a cabbage in the other, as tidily appareled as ever. She offered her thanks and gratitude for his influence and integrity. He
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4Fred was not a carnivore, let alone a cannibal. He just liked to lick syrup off old ladies, with their consent of course. He thought she had consented, but maybe she was demented.
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3the concentrated rays, magnified by Johnny's glass, began to bake uncanny inscriptions into the whiteboard in Akramegrian, a language Ms. Gumbel used fluently in a previous life. S
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2s were maintained by crickets day and night, who were in on it, or the abnormally regular frequencies of the electrical grid. The partially awake, with their Fourier Deconvolution
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3He dreamt of revenge, of carnage, of slaughter. But a new design came to Mr. Bonjanga in his dreams, and a voice said, "Here is the way people can make light. Give it away." He
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3Then I thought Buddhism was just another arbitrary point of view. My whole life's experience had been a blurry mosaic scattered through space and time, anchorless, unfocused. Still
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6"No, but she's the first woman we have seen and she seems to know the second man," said the third man to the first man. The second man lay dying on the road. The first woman
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2was attended by the eager, the willing, the decryers, the wayfarers and the unknown. When the clock struck nine, the magistrate set it on fire. Forbidden fruits and flesh were pass
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1It turned out to be the great whales, some of whom were able to broadcast through cable TV at great personal sacrifice. Sales of their ambergris helped to fund the channel 147 op