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From: ebh@argon.uucp (Ed Horch)
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 624, Message 4 of 13


 From Charles Bukowski's _Hollywood_:

    I decided to phone Francois Racine to see how he was doing.
    I got his answering machine:
    "Do not speak to me.  Speak to this machine.  I am nowhere
    and you are also nowhere.  Death comes with his little hands
    to grip us.  I do not wish to speak.  Speak to this machine."
    The beep sounded.

-Ed