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The knock on the door just now was the delivery man bearing a box full of crumpled white paper. Between two crumplings was You Shall Know Our Velocity, the new novel by Dave Eggers which I can’t remember ordering, but must have done.

Just lifting it out of the box brings a genuine surprise (a little OuLiPo moment with a nod to Guy DeBord which I won’t spoil for you). The next surprise was the invoice, which listed a price and shipping cost of $0 each. It remains to be seen whether my credit card statement is in on the joke.

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Posted to Books • 2002.10.18 (Fri) • 14:27

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