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Card Check: We've Seen This Movie Before
Kurt Vonnegut in a lecture once sketched out the plot line of the majority of the world's stories on a graph: The line goes up, great good fortune. Then the line goes down - "Oh, hell," in Vonnegut's words, and...
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Posted by Pat Cleary on March 29, 2009 8:48 AM
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