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Matty Gaskar, the renowned Basque poet, was

putting the final touches on his Magnum Opus:

¨What Happened?¨ an epic poem paralleling the

great oral epics of Homer and the Cogi. At his age,

you´d think he´d be flipping channels on T.V. rather

than composing a tome of such great importance,

but Matty didn´t know the meaning of the word:

¨quit¨. He didn´t speak English. He was at the acne

of his profession…a pimple on the face of literature.

 

He went to the refrigerator to get some milk. The

expiration date on the carton was February 3, 532

B.C.. There was a photo of a boy on the back of the

carton with hieroglyphs that read: ¨Have you seen

this pharaoh?¨ The milk was bad. Things were

changing so rapidly in the world he couldn´t keep

up anymore. That milk had still been good in 1955.

Time was funny like that. Each day felt like

a thousand years