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Whatever angle you look at it, one detail is incontrovertible: in the end, a man is going to be killed.

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It’s weird how hitting the ground doesn’t really hurt.

The Bodybuilder

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A perfect engine of meaningless data creation; an otherworldly space-place where people could depressurize and sometimes succumb to madness; good even when they were bad.

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Beowulf Thorne's cooking column for people with AIDS claimed the right to pleasure, but in each recipe was embedded an urgent appeal.

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