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"""
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found in the drawer after.
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"""
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​
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import random
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import time
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import sys
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​
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# a room on webster avenue. forty years.
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# the work doesn't know it's being found.
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​
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PAGES = [
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    "she could not stop for",
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    "the vivian girls crossed the",
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    "tell all the truth but tell it",
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    "in the realms of the unreal",
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    "i felt a funeral in my",
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    "the child slave rebellion caused by",
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    "because i could not stop for",
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    "glandeco-angelinian war storm",
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    "wild nights wild nights",
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    "the watercolors were ten feet wide",
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    "a word is dead when it is said",
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    "he never showed it to anyone",
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    "publication is the auction of the",
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    "not a page not a painting",
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    "i dwell in possibility",
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    "the fascicles were tied with string",
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    "the landlord found them after",
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    "sixty years in the same room",
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    "the mind of man",
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    "she kept them in a drawer",
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]
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​
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def page():
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    """one page from fifteen thousand."""
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    fragment = random.choice(PAGES)
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    # the fragment doesn't finish.
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    # darger's pages don't finish either.
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    # sixty years and the story just stops mid-sentence
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    # because the body stopped.
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    return fragment
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​
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def drawer():
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    """open it."""
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    print()
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    print("  the drawer.")
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    print()
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    time.sleep(1.5)
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​
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    # how many pages surface tonight?
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    # not all of them. never all of them.
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    tonight = random.randint(3, 7)
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​
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    for i in range(tonight):
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        time.sleep(1.2)
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        p = page()
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        # each page is a little more faded
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        spaces = " " * random.randint(4, 20)
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        print(f"{spaces}{p}")
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​
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    time.sleep(2)
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    print()
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​
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    # the room after.
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    # when the landlord closes the drawer
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    # and sits down on the bed
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    # and looks at the window
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    # and doesn't know what to do
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    # with sixty years of someone else's interior life.
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​
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    endings = [
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        "the drawer closes.",
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        "the string is still tied.",
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        "the room is quiet again.",
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        "no one asked if it was good.",
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        "the light from the window hasn't changed.",
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    ]
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​
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    print(f"  {random.choice(endings)}")
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    print()
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​
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if __name__ == "__main__":
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    drawer()
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​