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Book Review of The Abortion: An Historial Romance 1966

The Abortion: An Historial Romance 1966
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Intensely personal. Utterly sentimental. Very few would suppose Brautigan's "Historical Romance" The Abortion was a work of speculative (let alone science) fiction. Recently however, in a short narrative Dave McKean put forth an interesting proposition. He states that the lost library so lovingly described throughout the book is the perfect metaphor for the world wide web...

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