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From: marty@ism780c.UUCP (Marty Smith)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: The Great Depression
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Date: Thu, 14-Aug-86 13:34:22 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 14 13:34:22 1986
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Reply-To: marty@ism780c.UUCP (Marty Smith)
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Once, when I was depressed, I collected empty toilet paper rolls.  By the
time I got back to normal I had over seven hundred.  I kept them in a large
cardboard box that I painted baby blue, like the sky above the clouds
above Seattle.  I made art forms out of them, by gluing them together side
by side but skewed so they were not end to end.  One looked like an abstract
sailing ship, another like an unraveled DNA molecule.  I was going to enter
them in the Puyallup Fair art contest, but I was afraid someone would laugh
at me.  So I stayed home.  It rained that day, and there was a terrible
accident on the same road I would have taken to the fair.  I would've been
dead now, all because I saved that first empty toilet paper roll.  I'm a
lucky man, aren't I?

				Martin Borges Smith