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Pastiche
A pastiche is a work of literature that openly imitates the work of a previous artist, sometimes with the intent of satire.
“
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
three old owls on a chest of drawers
were screwing
the daughter of the doctor.
But then the mother called them,
colorless green ideas slepp furiously.
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― How to Travel With a Salmon & Other Essays
― How to Travel With a Salmon & Other Essays
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This business with Sir Magnus Pye had got off to an inauspicious start. It was one thing to be stabbed in your own home—but to be decapitated with a medieval sword the moment darkness fell was quite simply outrageous. Saxby-on-Avon was such a quiet place! Yes, there had been that business with the cleaner, the woman who had tripped up and fallen down the stairs, but this was something else again. Could it really be true that one of the villagers, living in a Georgian house perhaps, going to chur
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― Magpie Murders
― Magpie Murders
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