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Submitted to Contest #66
It starts with a newspaper. The newspaper he picks up on his way to the office in a desperate attempt to get figures floating under his eyelids – an annual effect of late night work on the annual report - disappear. He replaces them with words, which works well for the first thirty minutes of his daily hour-long bus ride. He flips through the news: people are getting married and divorced, royal babies are being born, politicians promise and politicians lie. He absorbs those trivial facts that will be forgotten by lunchtime when suddenly o...
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