I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled Science Fic…

Kurt Vonnegut
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I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled Science Fiction ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal. ✨ Science Fiction. The New York Times Book Review, September 5, 1965.
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I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled Science Fiction ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal. ✨ Science Fiction. The New York Times Book Review, September 5, 1965.

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