Excerpt from "The Candide Campaign"
(from the "Infant of Prague" section)
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The Candide Campaign is copyright Antoinette LaFarge and the Plaintext Players, 1996


Candide settles the Infant's imperial robes in pretty folds.
why bother?
nobody listens
and that was the problem . . . too few lies is worse than none
liar!
still lies quiet truth
Candide says, "Once upon a time . . ."
truth died a long time ago
and nobody remembers him
History-Herself . o O (I have buried truth so many times I keep forgetting where . . .)
Candide says, " . . . in a big white house . . ."
The Infant.of.Prague decides to tell the truth.
It lived in a stable.
A black cloud of body parts gathers on the horizon.
we are all lost
i know
it's Digital.Director's fault
reporter looks for the map
The Infant.of.Prague offers the globe.

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