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"You'll have to specify which Germany you want this
package sent to, sir."
"Just Germany."
"But which one, sir?"
"There is only ONE Germany."
"There are two Germanies, sir. Do you want the package
sent to the Federal Republic or the the German Democratic
Republic?"
"There is only ONE GERMANY!"
--conversation between postal clerk and customer in the
Federal Republic of Germany in January, 1984.
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"For example, insofar as a book is made of chapters, it
has its culminating and terminal points. What happens,
on the contrary, with a book made of plateaus, each com-
municating with the others through tiny fissures as in
the brain?"
--Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
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And what if a book
or film or any surface information
tends to stick to were made in a progression appearing
at times to be backwards, where the answers are given
in advance of the questions, like the Jeopardy game?
(What if it were actually written backwards, as I sus-
pect many books of having been, so as to appear a work
of genius? Have you ever noticed how much easier it is
to work through a maze if you start at the end and look
for the beginning?)
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