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Mr. Gage, your satire approaches the level of Joseph Heller’s artistry! If you are just now reading Catch 22, which I have probably read 20 times, I expect a successful apprenticeship, surpassing the master...

Regarding Orwell, your audience may appreciate my earlier novel Proles - a Novel about 2084.

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I believe the powers that be are bedeviling the language until they can say authoritatively that "a word means whatever I say it means," and we'll grudgingly agree.

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Why is gender appropriation not proscribed?

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An item in the cornucopia of delights proffered the Sourista is the word play and yet... "undulating morass" in a riff on word abuse? Rolls off the tongue nicely and elicits a quick if rather illicit giggle but a morass undulating? I would have thought morasses a rather more sedentary lot. And: Women can be dicks, but that neither implies nor denies the existence of a penis -- which would not be possible for a woman.

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