So happy to have found a copy at the thrift store, I've been looking out for this one for years.
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So happy to have found a copy at the thrift store, I've been looking out for this one for years. 3 comments
"It has never been spread out, yet, they said it would cover the whole country, and shut out the sunlight! So we now use the country itself, as its own map, and I assure you it does nearly as well." https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/simulacra.html My wiki is plastered in quotes from that genius book. |
Don't interrupt, Bruno said as we came in. I'm counting the Pigs in the field!
How many are there? I enquired.
About a thousand and four, said Bruno.
You mean about a thousand, Sylvie corrected him. There's no good saying "and four": you can't be sure about the four!
And you're as wrong as ever! Bruno exclaimed triumphantly. It's just the four I can be sure about; cause they're here, grubbing under the window! It is the thousand I isn't pruffickly sure about
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Don't interrupt, Bruno said as we came in. I'm counting the Pigs in the field!
How many are there? I enquired.
About a thousand and four, said Bruno.
You mean about a thousand, Sylvie corrected him. There's no good saying "and four": you can't be sure about the four!
And you're as wrong as ever! Bruno exclaimed triumphantly. It's just the four I can be sure about; cause they're here, grubbing under the window! It is the thousand I isn't pruffickly sure about