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death came with this huge tome a user guide
and warranty mode d'emploi for our
dear neighbors in the north let's see what gives
on the first page the only sentence reads
lie still and do not fret i do i don't
what follows is a lot of empty lines
crowding a plethora of empty pages
the last one sports another single sentence
assume a passage of a hundred years
by now you must have grasped the use of your
fine acquisition true by now i have