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Monday, April 3, 2006


An extract from The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster, one of the best contemporary American writers.
Honey and Tom are discussing their election votes.

Honey struggles to suppress a smile. Tom is so damned earnest, she's itching to knock him from his high horse with some loopy, off-the-wall remark. I can see the joke coming, and I cross my fingers that it's a good one.
'Do you know what happened the last time a nation listened to a bush?' Honey asks.
No one says a word.
'Its people wandered in the desert for forty years.'
In spite of himself, Tom burst out laughing.

12:15:00 PM    

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