There's a magazine dedicated to vintage paperbacks called "Paperback Fanatic," now available through 'print-on-demand' on Amazon, that I've sporadically contributed to over the years. Back in 2012 they published what was supposed to be the first part of an extensive A to Z of Gold Medal paperbacks -…

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I vaguely recall Max van Sydow's character saying that (or something similar) in David Lynch's problematic adaptation of Frank Herbert's "Dune." He was referring to those assassins left behind by the Harkonnens during the transfer of ownership of Arrakis. I'm using it to refer to the process of remo…

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