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What does __nited States of America_ mean? That we__e some states, we__e united somehow, and that we__e in America. America could be anywhere on the continents of North or South America, so that__ not specific enough, and the part about the states doesn__ narrow it down, either. Mexico has united states, too. So does Canada, except they call them provinces. It__ not even a name. It__ just a vague description. It__ so generic, like naming a country __ountry.

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Zombie!_ Sammy calls. __ knew it was you.__ombie?__here are you taking him?_ Ben says to me in a deep voice. I don__ remember it being that deep. Is my memory bad or is he lowering it on purpose, to sound older?__ombie, that__ Cassie,_ Sam chides him. __ou know__assie.___assie?_ Like he__ never heard the name before.__ombie?_ I say, because I really haven__ heard that name before.I pull off the cap, thinking it might help him recognize me, then immediately regret it. I know what my hair must look like.__e go to the same high school,_ I say, drawing my fingers hastily through my chopped-off locks. __ sit in front of you in Honors Chemistry.__en shakes his head like he__ clearing out the cobwebs.Sammy goes, __ told you she was coming.___uiet, Sam,_ I scold him.__am?_ Ben asks.__y name is Nugget now, Cassie,_ Sam informs me.__ell, sure it is._ I turn to Ben. __ou know my brother.

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There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

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Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms

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This was his first trip on the Ossifar Distana, his first real splash in life. Look what it got him. Mister Smiff liked anonymity. He kept a low profile, often traveling under assumed names, claiming to be anything from a banker to a (very) successful life insurance salesman. He__ never broken the law, at least not irreparably. He was quite generous, well liked, sponsoring many charities anonymously _ which is why it was so surprising to find him floating face down in the private spa in his apartment, murdered. He had been murdered, unless it was a freak shaving accident. Those old razors weren__ called cut-throats for nothing. Yikes.

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Is everyone with one face called a Milo?""Oh no," Milo replied; "some are called Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things.""How terribly confusing," he cried. "Everything here is called exactly what it is. The triangles are called triangles, the circles are called circles, and even the same numbers have the same name. Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things? You'd have to say Robert plus John equals four, and if the four's name were Albert, things would be hopeless.""I never thought of it that way," Milo admitted."Then I suggest you begin at once," admonished the Dodecahedron from his admonishing face, "for here in Digitopolis everything is quite precise.

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Norton Juster

The Phantom Tollbooth