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Once upon a time there was a dwarf knight who only had fifty words to live in and they were so fleeting that he only had time to put on a suit of armor and ride swiftly on a black horse into a very well-lit woods where he vanished forever.

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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
Time
Horse
Knights
Forever
Armor
Dwarf
Upon
Fleeting
Dwarves
Words
Suit
Swiftly
Black
Ride
Dwarfs
Live
Suits
Knight
Wells
Fifty
Vanished
Well
Woods
Lit

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