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-Dolly, the sheep: the harbinger of Dolly, the sheep.
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-Well, hello.
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-Thanks to her, “the one and only” will now mean “the one and only” again.
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-If you say so. Pressing on, if you had never heard a record, how, then, would a broken one sound?
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-Trotting out recycled vintage koans? Look out, Leonard Koan joke ahead!
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-They were pressings made of vinyl—flat and jammed with sound, and round and grooved.
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-Of late capitalism afternoons, when we were only pintsized critics, we played Frisbee with LPs in vacant lots.
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-If I had done the string arrangements and saw you, my heart would have broken in two.
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-So here we are, in mufti, cheek to cheek, long in teeth, and still not quite a pair.
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-Have faith. I’ve got laps to do, but then…
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-Stop by, if you would, some snowy evening. We’ll count sheep.
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klipschutz [time & materials] a reheated conversation at the pool. Dialect Anthropol 34, 27 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-009-9150-5
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