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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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Essay by Ted Gioia

As writing teachers and crime scene investigators know, a hundred different people could witness the same incident and describe it differently. But only Raymond Queneau, a French author with ties to the Surrealist movement, has put all one hundred accounts into a book.

Okay, not quite one hundred. Queneau stopped after ninety-nine retel…

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