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The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is determined by the worth of the poem itself.
The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is determined by the worth of the poem itself.
Approximate author period: c. 1985 AD · modern
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- Paul Auster
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- Approximate author period: c. 1985 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1947 to 2024; Wikidata Q214642, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214642 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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