Barry or
Hillary?
Kwisatz Haderach or
Bene Gesserit?
You be the judge.
(With acknowledgments to cynical dystopian
Lawrence Person.)
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In other news, check out Louis Bayard's amusing interoffice memo from the in-house counsel at Erewhon Publishing, "
Attention, all you memoir fabulists," suggesting some liability-avoiding corrections to well-known autobiographical works, e.g.:
'"Speak, Memory" by Vladimir Nabokov
'The author loses his first butterfly at Vyra, Russia, finds it again 40 years later in Colorado. Average life span for a butterfly is 20 to 40 days. Suggest changing "butterfly" to "giant tortoise."'
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