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    <body><![CDATA[I did a paper on this story in college.  It was my first journey away from the concrete sequential world of my childhood and into the world of the abstract.  Blew my mind wide open.  I was never fit for decent society thereafter.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So like a dream through an existentialist's filter.  Haunting and lush.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Swimmer was ok and I also saw the movie version]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fabulous postmodern short story.]]></body>
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