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+Accessories & Peripherals | 1842 days ago

More People Who Could Beat You Up

By Lev Grossman

Matthew Polly’s new book American Shaolin comes with this memorable epigraph from Snow Crash, which I can’t quite transcribe verbatim on Time’s website:

+Accessories & Peripherals | 1842 days ago

Dude, I’m Gettin’ a Chumby

By Lev Grossman

Is that meme funny again yet? No? OK.

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