"Recently I began to work on an essay about why there are no longer any
good essays about why there are no longer any good novels. In
performing a survey of the literature, I was able to trace things back
to Umak of Sur, who in 6000 B.C. etched into clay a complaint that the
quality of Sumerian pictographic prose had gone down terribly since the
new Gods had been introduced."
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# Jan 8, 2007