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Posted By: davidcycleback

The seller's description and emails are much like the cut-up technique in writing (William S. Burroughs) were you cut up texts and randomly paste them back together to create different meaning and plot-- sort of creating an Alice in Wonderland.

For example:

"I WAS AT A FLEA MARKET WHERE SOMEONE WAS HOLDING AN ESTATE SALE" .... This is like saying "I was at a funeral where I had a piece of wedding cake."

or

"I CAME ACROSS A OLD SEALED TRUNK .THEY OPENED THE TRUNK" ... One would have thought the estate would have opened the trunk to see what was inside before the sale. And are trunks ever sealed?

or

He opened a sealed 1909 cigarette pack and pulled out a baseball card. He guarantees the authenticity of the pack (and the cigar box the pack was in), but not the card that was inside the pack.

It's just all rather amusing.