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Zed Shaw's personal hell: being given a laptop with an internet connection, a browser pointed at Wikipedia, and being asked to complete the article List of things which do not exist.


Uh, that makes no sense.


He could call it "List of things registered in Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"


Would the list contain itself?

Ohhh. Damn you, Bert Russell!

(I kill me.)


How about "List of articles which do not mention themselves"?


List of Articles not listed in a List of Articles.


Well, they would have to be very notable things that do not exist. (My next line wants very much to be a joke about God but I'll just leave that up to your individual imaginations.)




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