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You know when you've been looking for a poem for years...

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iapetus

Scary Euro Man
...because you once really liked it, and you can't remember the penultimate line?

Typo by Russell Hoban

'Nitgub,' said the typewriter,
and clenched the paper tight.
'Nitgub positively.
It is here in black and white.'
'Nonsense,' I said.
'I typed N-O-T-H-I-N-G;
the word of course was nothing,
simply nothing, don't you see?'
'Nothing may be what you meant,
but nitgub's what you wrote.
I like it,' said the typewriter.
'It strikes a happy note.
It has more style than nothing,
has a different sort of sound.
The colour is superior;
the flavour's nice and round.
Have you plumbed its deepest depths,
its mystery explained?'
'All right,' I said, 'I'll take it.
Nitgub ventured, nitgub gained.'
 
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