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Debrief

 

"What did you make of him?"

"He likes to talk about himself."

"Doesn't everyone?"

"Not me."

"Really?"

"What are you saying?"

"Nothing."

 

Bed

 

"You shouldn't have said that."

"What?"

"You know."

"I don't. Tell me."

"I'm going to read."

"You know your lips move when you read."

"You're kidding, right?"

"It was a joke."

~~~

"You must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on," said Beckett. But first, begin.

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Watching Bondi and Bessent, Leavitt and Lutnick jostle to play Regan and Goneril opposite Trump's Lear is to be reminded of Marx's observation that significant events and personages repeat twice, first as tragedy, then as farce.

~~~

Good writers are great revisers; great writers possess something that transcends the elements of style.

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