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Dirt

The medium of surprise.
From What Shall We Do Now? Five Hundred Games and Pastimes, by Dorothy Canfield Fisher.

All my life I have felt inspired by books. Some books inspire me to make my own books, some books inspire me to sing songs, like after and went around singing “Wendell Berry, Wendell Berry!” to the tune of “Cinderelly, Cinderelly” from the Disney movie. And some books inspire me to feed them to the dog. I like books, some books, but he likes books, all books.

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