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I believe I saw a woodcock. He had a long bill like putting a fire hydrant into a pencil sharpener, then pasting it onto a bird and letting the bird fly away in front of me with this thing on its face for no other purpose than to amaze me.

Richard Brautigan

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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
Faces
Putting
Sharpener
Away
Bird
Amaze
Thing
Fronts
Pencil
Long
Front
Pencils
Believe
Saws
Onto
Like
Fire
Letting
Face
Bill
Pasting
Purpose
Bills
Hydrant

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