Owen Kilfeather

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The author has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this selection of words placed in a particular order and committed to flattened woodpulp, implicit also is the assertion of ownership over the trillion combinations of words closest to this work, that is to say for example the simple replacement of the word organism (pp.23) with organisation shall prove no foil against the arrival of some irate letters Monday morning—especially so in this case given the incestuous etymology. No part of this commitment to flattened woodpulp may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the publisher, with the exception of semaphore/lewd suggestive dancing, both of which the publisher is quite partial to. The author acknowledges that while asserting his rights over this information which, cybernetically speaking, has no owner, may be ultimately useless in a world of perpetually advancing (and by the same token devaluing) effective levels of information—even if he happens to care little for swimming with the centreless-chemistry-universal-heat-death shoal that has steadily acquired in number since the week in 1945 we fricasseed 150,000 yellow folk in the name of common decency, his youngest daughter wants a pony for her birthday and is possessed of a formidable method of pouting. It is like watching a squirrel roll over and die.