July 1, 2005
a mere shadow
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Waves crash against the rocks at Au Train Bay,
Lake Superior.
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You're supposed to make only two
quarts of Kool-Aid from a package, but he always
made a gallon, so his Kool-Aid was a mere shadow of
its desired potency. And you're
supposed to add a cup of sugar to every package of
Kool-Aid, but he never put any sugar in his Kool-Aid
because there wasn't any sugar to put in it.
Richard Brautigan,
from a short story titled "THE KOOL-AID WINO" from his book of short
stories titled "Trout Fishing in America."


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