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We're at that blissful
moment in the reading

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when I'm about to read
my penultimate poem.

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[CHUCKLING]

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This is a paragraph from
Chapter U for Zhu Yu.

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This chapter from Eunoia
concerns, of course,

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the exploits of Ubu Roi,
the pea-brained, pot-bellied

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dictator made famous, of course,
by the French playwright Alfred

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Jarry.

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I often get asked to read
this particular paragraph.

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"Ubu gulps up brunch, duck,
hummus, nuts, fugu, bulgur,

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buns, crusts plus crumbs,
blutwurst, Brühwurst, spuds,

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curds, plums, munch, munch.

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Ubu sups.

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Ubu slurps rum punch.

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Ubu chugs full cups plus mugs.

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Full tubs plus tons.

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Glug glug.

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Ubu gluts up grub, thus
Ubu's plump gut hurts.

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Ubu grunts.

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Ugh, ugh.

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Ubu burps up mucus, sputum.

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Ubu upchucks lunch.

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Ubu slumps.

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Ubu sulks.

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Ubu shrugs.

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Ubu slurs drunk chums.

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Ubu snubs such drunks, thus
curt churls cuss, shut up, Ubu.

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Shut up.

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Gruff punks club Ubu.

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Butch thugs drug Ubu.

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Ku Klux cults Kung Fu punch Ubu.

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Rum dumb bums bust up pubs."

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