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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)

Les Gommes (Eng: The Erasers) is the title of the debut novel by Alain Robbe-Grillet, first published in 1953. The novel reads like a detective story but is primarily concerned with weaving and then probing a complete mixture of fact and fantasy. The novel contains within it a deeper structure based on the story of Oedipus. A detective is seeking the assassin in a murder that has not yet occurred, only to discover that it is his destiny to become that assassin.

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The narrative spans the twenty-four-hour period following a series of eight murders in eight days, presumably the work of a terrorist group. After the ninth murder, the investigation is turned over to a police agent, who may in fact be the assassin.

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