By Douglas Coupland
Iteration X is a box consultant to and for the huge new release born within the past due Nineteen Fifties and the 1960s--a iteration that has been erroneously labelled "postponed" and "indifferent." this is often facto-fiction a few wildly accelerating way of life ready within the corridor.
I think this can be an OCR test, however it is kind of allright. besides, till a retail model exhibits up, this'll do.
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But Edward didn't get far, for behind the sofa Ludwig had magically and (believe me) unexpectedly turned from a spunky, affectionate little , funmoppet with an optimistically jittery little stub of tail into a flaring, black-gummed sepia gloss rottweiler that pounced at Edward's throat, missing the jugular vein by a hair as Edward recoiled in horror. The SPECTACULARISM. A fascination with extreme situations. new Ludwig-cum-Cerberus then went for Edward's shins with foaming fangs and the desperate wrenched offal howl of a dozen dogs being run over by trucks on the freeway.
As for Arleen, well, her heart had a romantic little arrhythmia right on the spot, even in spite of Buck's looking like a Frankenstein monster. ' 'I'm hungry,' Buck said to Arleen, to which she replied, 'Won't you please please have some of these Vienna frank-and-cheese kebabs. I made them myself. ' asked Buck. ' 'Oh, yes. His combine overturned during the harvest, and he was trapped inside for two hours while he waited for the jaws of life to arrive. ' "From that moment on, a conversational rapport developed between the two, and before long, love bloomed, but there was a problem with their love, for Buck would always fall back asleep almost as soon as he would awaken, owing to his space poisoning.
Then comes The Flash. " 'Get down,' you shout, but they continue their transaction, deer transfixed by headlights. ' But your warning remains unheeded. "And so then, just before the front windows become a crinkled, liquefied imploding sheet—the surface of a swimming pool during a high dive, as seen from below— "—And just before you're pelleted by a hail of gum and magazines— "—And just before the fat man is lifted off his feet, hung in suspended animation and bursts into flames while the liquefied ceiling lifts and drips upward— "Just before all of this, your best friend cranes his neck, lurches over to where you lie, and kisses you on the mouth, after which he says to you, 'There.