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                                                                                  It starts again.
                          Sean had a way of getting his way -- a way of delivering
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                    argument that implied that everyone in earshot was savvy begins to cough
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                    Enemies of Art ranged without. His thesis advisor bought
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                    it every time. Sean turned in his due-diligence, a bunch of Locked Doors
                    theses written in the last century: collected memoirs of the
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                    survivors of electroshock, lobotomies, thalidomide. His by Stephanie
                    advisor signed off and within twenty-four hours, he was Burgis
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                    debarking in Orlando and renting a car to take him to the
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                                                                                  You can never
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                                                                                  let anyone
                    could finish the thesis. But for now, it was just him and
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                    Grampa, head-to-head.
                                                                                  mother told
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                    Grampa was switched off when Sean found him on the him. That was
                    ward, which throbbed with a coleslaw of laser-light and the first rule she
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                    video games and fuck-pix and explosions and car wrecks taught him, and
                                                                                  the last, before
•   SUPPORT US      and fractals and atrocities.
                                                                                  she left him
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                    Sean remembered visits before the old man was
                    committed, he and his dutiful father visiting the impeccable It.
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                    apartment in the slate house in Kingston, Ontario. Grampa
                                                                                  Heroic
      o Merchandise made tea and conversation, both perfectly executed and Measures
                    without soul. It drove Sean's father bugfuck, and he'd
•   COMMUNITY       inevitably have a displaced tantrum at Sean in the car on by Matthew
                    the way home. The first time Grampa had switched on in Johnson
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                    prototype of Enemies of Art against his father's own As 18 December
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                    stupid.
                                                                                  Pale as he was,
                    Grampa had been in maintenance mode, running through a it was hard to
                    series of isometric stretching exercises in one corner while believe he
                    Sean and his father had it out. Then, suddenly, Grampa would never
                    was between them, arguing both sides with machinegun rise from this
                    passion and lucidity, running an intellect so furious it      bed. Even in
                    appeared to be steam-driven. Sean's tongue died in his the darkest
                    mouth. He was made wordless by this vibrant, violent          times, she had
                    intellect that hid inside Grampa. Grampa and his father hadnever really
                    traded extemporaneous barbs until Grampa abruptly             feared for him;
                    switched back off during one of Sean's father's rebuttals, he had always
                    conceding the point in an unconvincing, mechanical tone. been strong, so
                    Sean's father stalked out of the house and roared out of strong.
                    the driveway then, moving with such speed that if Sean
                    hadn't been right on his heels, he wouldn't have been able Love Among
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                    to get in the car before his father took off.
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                          And now, here was Grampa in maintenance mode. He