Carolina QuotesZippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical and slick. A zipper is where the Industrial Revolution meets the Cobra Cult.
Tom Robbins Carolinian
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- Jitterbug Perfume (1984)
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- 1984
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