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The Exuberant Sentence

Swamplandia! by Karen Russell

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Probably it was Chief Bigtree’s idea, and it was a good one—to blank the follow spot and let a sharp moon cut across the sky, unchaperoned; to kill the microphone; to leave the stage lights’ tiny eye…

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