"SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine."

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As for me, my literary theory, like my politics, is based chiefly upon one main idea, to wit, the idea of freedom. I am, in brief, a libertarian of the most extreme variety, and know of no human right that is one-tenth as valuable as the simple right to utter what seems (at the moment) to be the truth

— H. L. Mencken