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To make a long story short is a phrase whose origins are complicated and rambling

By Paul Campos

On May 22, 2020

At 4:56 pm

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*I have read this book. (It was the only one in a cabin in northern Michigan).

Here’s the opening passage of a certain text:

Totalitarianism has no place in America. Has it arrived? Well, that’s a question for another day. It’s not a question I will endeavor to answer, at least not yet . . .

Is the text in question:

(a) A book report about Animal Farm a ninth-grader wrote the night before it was due.

(b) A very early draft of the Unabomber manifesto.

(d) A concurring opinion in a case about vaping, that then rambles on for 13 pages about the profoundly unrelated topic of public health measure related to COVID-19.

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