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Title
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Freakmole's Fables
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Description
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Limited edition of 100 (signed) copies, this copy unsigned
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J.D. Roberts
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Creator
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Roberts, John David
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:28:53Z
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2003-05
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1980?
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:28:53Z
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Date Issued
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1980?
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Abstract
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This is a curiously minimalist typescript pamphlet of 40 pages which lists not even an author. It claims to be one of one hundred signed copies but is not signed. The texts--from one to three per page--are fables, but are decidedly surreal. A television set asks an ear of corn contemptuously what he can do and receives the answer that he is fit only to be eaten (3). On the same page, a poet demanded that a businessman justify himself. That hardly seems necessary, thought the businessman, continuing to tread with his boots on the Poet's face. The humor can be fun. One mole tells another that television is an achievement by means of which men in Teheran can see a girl waggle her hips in Boston. The second asks if the girls in Teheran cannot waggle their hips. Presumably is the answer, but now they are freed for other occupations. Like what? Like making tv sets, under a license from Boston (5)! A list of kings shows Ambrose the Savage, James the Horrible, and Paul the Ferocious each reigning between sixty-eight and seventy-eight years, while Theodore the Pacific ruled for one year (10). While the rabbit is racing the tortoise, the fox picks up the former in his air claptraption. The claptraption reaches the winning post just before the tortoise, and in landing both the fox and rabbit break their necks (33)!
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Identifier
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5094 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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s.n.
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[S.l.
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Subject
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PR6068.O1445 F7 1980
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole