THE BOOK OF
NIPS
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE BOOK OF THE DIVINE WIND
The Nips invent suicide
Chapter 4
aIn fact, the Nips were so original that everything ever invented was invented in Japan first,
2bIncluding the wheel,
3cAnd art,
4dAnd literature,
5eAnd food made out of raw fish,
6fAnd music,
7gAnd tiny little paper umbrellas,
8hAnd great big paper dragons,
9iAnd tiny little paper houses,
10jAnd automobiles made out of old beer cans,
11kNot to mention philosophy and religion,
12lAnd swords,
13mAnd zeroes,
14And good manners,
15Except maybe not quite so much good manners as the other things,
16Because when you have enough swords and zeroes, you don’t have to be as polite as you used to be.
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