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Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?

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Richard Brautigan
Age: 49 †
Born: 1935
Born: January 30
Died: 1984
Died: October 25
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Tacoma
Washington
Richard Gary Brautigan
Huge
Recently
Probably
Closest
Wrong
Holes
Space
Discovered
Anything
Lovely
Nothing
Perfection
Things
Absolutely
Empty
Astronomers

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