“"Will you be wanting to contest the divorce?" I asked Mrs. Davis.
"I should think not," she said calmly, "although I suppose on of us should, for the fun of the thing. An uncontested divorce always seems to me contrary to the spirit of divorce."”

— Donald Barthelme , book Sixty Stories

"At The End Of The Mechanical Age".
Sixty Stories (1981)

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American writer, editor, and professor 1931–1989

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