Cartier Street Review March 2011

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Unauthorized Biography A modest man, his property has long been owned by others, or been incinerated.

Without question, we know only a few of his statistics escaped the grave.

By standards of his time, he was already old, near infirmity when we were born.

He talked of pleasures in his past, but no writings survive among his known posterity; no mementos, no souvenirs, no photos in his doughboy hat, no testament, no promise, no commitment, no evidence of trust.

And after us, who will note 9


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