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Did You Know…

John Ohno
13 min readDec 1, 2019

This is a text produced for NaNoGenMo 2018 inspired by the poetry of William Carlos Williams.

M  o  r  r  i  s  ?




... that


Neel Kashkari


(pictured), six years


a f t e r


completing his


MBA, was


p u t


i n


c h a r g e


o f


the $700Â billion U.S.


Government bailout


o f


f i n a n c i a l


i n s t i t u t i o n s ?


o r


...that six


Regional Specialized Meteorological


Centres are charged


with globally


t r a c k i n g


t r o p i c a l


c y c l o n e s ?


a n d


. . . t h a t


t h e


Fauna of


Scotland includes


a l m o s t


h a l f


of the EU�s


b r e e d i n g


seabirds, but only


one endemic vertebrate


species, and


that although


a population


of Wild


Cats (pictured) remains


many of


t h e


larger mammals were


hunted to


extinction in


h i s t o r i c


t i m e s ?




. . .


t h a t


the Phillips


Mansion, described as


having been built


in the


" C l a s s i c


Haunted Mansion"


s t y l e ,


was the


home of


the richest

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John Ohno
John Ohno

Written by John Ohno

Resident hypertext crank. Author of Big and Small Computing: Trajectories for the Future of Software. http://www.lord-enki.net

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