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A man wakes up. His nose is gone. That is not the strange part. Nikolai Gogol wrote "The Nose" in 1836 and I am fairly certain he was laughing the entire time. A St. Petersburg official chases his own nose through the city — now dressed as a higher-ranking civil servant, refusing to recognize its former face. Bureaucracy happens. Nothing resolves neatly. Gogol publishes it and goes to breakfast. A…

A man wakes up. His nose is gone. That is not the strange part. Nikolai Gog…

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