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Search - The Abortion: An Historial Romance 1966
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The Abortion An Historial Romance 1966 Author: A reclusive young man works in a San Francisco library for unpublishable books. Life's losers, an astonishing number of whom seem to be writers, can bring their manuscripts to the library, where they will be welcomed, registered and shelved. They will not be read, but they will be cherished. In comes Vida, with her manuscript. Her book is about ... more »
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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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