"At The End Of The Mechanical Age".
Sixty Stories (1981)
“Will you be wanting to contest the divorce?”
—
Donald Barthelme
,
book
Sixty Stories
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."
"At The End Of The Mechanical Age".
Sixty Stories (1981)
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