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Strauss’s specialty is a backwards talking routine called “Lirty Dies” that he performs as often as he can, in which that madman Saddam becomes that “sadman Maddam” who has weapons of “ass mannihilation,” Bush is a “learless feeder,” and Clinton laments, in regard to the Florida recount, “That’s no way to lick a peter.” Strauss was once a resident of Adams House and sometimes talks backwards...
...other worthy story is "The Death of Adam Sadman" by Siegle Fleisher. Its virtue is its creation of mood (Mr. Fleisher is well-traveled in the morbid regions of the human heart. In this case we are dealing with a hospital orderly who has always wanted to see a patient die, and finally gets his chance). "But the author must gild his story with psychological comment: "Life itself was nothing more than a perpetual dying, and because it was so, was more life. Paradox lay at the root of all being." Fortunately, however, there is little of this stuff...
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