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WEEK 310 / 337 — The Marked Paragraph
Vol. 5 ·  Chapter 32 — From the Desk · May 18 – May 24, 2021
Manga panel 1 of 3, Week 310 “The Marked Paragraph”: A marker stripe down one paragraph of somebody else's editorial, and a blank sheet waiting underneath it.
THE EIGHTEENTH OF MAY. THE PRESS OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT GOES TO WORK ON A NEWSPAPER.
Manga panel 2 of 3, Week 310 “The Marked Paragraph”: The whole publication for the week is four sentences of another man's editorial, read at a desk and reprinted under his own name.
"Joe Biden, having already presided on the worst economic recovery since World War II as Barack Obama’s vice president, could oversee one even worse. … Biden came into office with every economic feature in his favor.…
Manga panel 3 of 3, Week 310 “The Marked Paragraph”: A week-to-view diary open on the desk, its ruled columns standing empty from one end of the spread to the other.
SEVEN DAYS. ONE ENTRY. HE DID NOT WRITE A WORD OF IT.
TO BE CONTINUED →

This week in the saga

The whole output of the week is one paragraph of a newspaper editorial about the other man's economy, marked with a stripe, cut out and reprinted under his own masthead. On the page he built for himself there is one entry near the top and nothing at all under it. Not a word of it is his.

Readers' Corner

Letters from the readership on Week 310. Pick a pen name — no account needed.

Opening the mailbag…