“The French know when it’s summer. The rues scandaleuses unravel
— puppies forced out as reviewers

to disengage emotional ties to products. The superficial
goal, to excoriate profitable abstractions ...

The French are crazy bastards,” James writes, hangs tough —
“To donor offspring self-ownership is sweet.
The goal of hindsight though is to identify
every extant triple threat

supposing enough sexual naiveté
was never far from the surface. Let’s say

Freudian selfhood documentaries are
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