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EMPTINESS BOTTLED
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CANNIBALIZED HAIBUN
Emptiness bottled would no doubt fetch a fair price. Some existential fool would be dim enough to buy it. “There’s a sucker born every minute.” to quote P.T. Barnum. Mencken had a few choice words about it. We’re going to bottle emptiness. We’ll design a fancy design to etch onto the brightly colored bottles in which we store the emptiness. It’s bound to make a fortune. Nothingness finally distributed in user friendly containers. The product to sell is always the one that everybody already has.
Emptiness bottled
Camus overcame the plague
to finish the job
