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All Laws in Limbo
THERE IS a policy. Maybe agreement is a better word. An understanding. One is hesitant to introduce words like policy when there is an opportunity to live outside the cage of bureaucracies. So let's go with understanding. The understanding is that a
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Table Talk
MY COUSIN and I were talking at the post office and got pretty soon in the course of nature onto the subject of forgetfulness, a subject that seems to me not to have been so prominent back in the old days, but I may have forgot. We exchanged some exa
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Conversations with Max
More to affirm again an ancient contract Than out of thirst, with your percussive tongue You lap a trickle of water in the bathroom sink I rinse for you when I'm done shaving. That's life: I have had more of it than your allotment. Man has invented d