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William Gaddis hiding in Thomas Pynchon's papers, George MacDonald's unpublished work, and underground surrealism.
Beginning in the mid-1960s, Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo, our beloved Borges, began dictating letters addressed to himself, and by the time he died in 1986 he had dictated 637 of them.
None have ever adopted the diet, but vegetarianism is considered by the Kijk people of north Ciscaucasia to be divine, “the proper state of man in the orchard.”
Dr. Ramsey Glutherfeld photographed his classmates in the Princeton undergraduate class of 1965. Students of “the mechanical poetry of warfare” will recognize Pandolfi and Erjavec in the second row.

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When the Bavarian Soviet Republic collapsed in 1919, its nascent physics and engineering corps went into hiding in the countryside outside Frankfurt…
The young terrorist, upon learning my father was American, asked in earnest whether the Symbionese Liberation Army had succeeded in conquering…
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Fictional fictions. Novels not yet written by writers not yet born. A new past.
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