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Operant Conditioning /On Intrepid Contagion<br />
I was born in a centripetal spring armchair facing an executive desk on the corner of which sat a<br />
grim figure in a chalk line suit with two slender fingers clasping a cigarillo. His words: "You're a<br />
phoney, a failure and an affront to stalwart citizens of this country. You have no natural ability and<br />
will be buried on the city's dime."<br />
I excused myself and crawled toward something pendulous with a leaky knot at one end.