The Postmortal
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Read between May 16 - June 13, 2018
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It’s not that people don’t want to die. It’s that they don’t want to grow old.
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7/4/2019,
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He didn’t fit the traditional scientist mold.
Bernard
Because of course he doesn’t.
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Exasperated one night in the lab, Otto became careless.
Bernard
Because of course he did.
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“It just seemed like too easy of an answer,”
Bernard
Because it is.
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As part of my executive order, citizens who get the cure will no longer be eligible for Social Security or Medicare benefits, regardless of how long they live.
Bernard
Almost certainly not constitutional.
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The mayor has raised tolls at all Hudson River crossings
Bernard
The mayor, of course, does not have that power.
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The plug-in was parked twelve blocks to the west,
Bernard
Why??
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At last we reached twenty-seven,
Bernard
The parking garage is 27 stories high?? Or is the plug in some sort of flier??
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I drove the plug-in
Bernard
Nope, seems to be a car.
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Ben Franklin flying a kite with a key attached in a thunderstorm, D-day in Normandy, Neil Armstrong on the moon, Graham Otto with his fruit flies, etc.
Bernard
Fictional rule of three: real figure, real figure, fictional figure.
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Actual gunpowder? Not smokeless powder?
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