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The Gostak

Learn to function in a textual world you have no basis for imagining.

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Here is the opening paragraph from The Gostak:

"Finally, here you are. At the delcot of tondam, where doshes deave. But the doshery lutt is crenned with glauds.

Glauds! How rorm it would be to pell back to the bewl and distunk them, distunk the whole delcot, let the drokes uncren them.

But you are the gostak. The gostak distims the doshes. And no glaud will vorl them from you."

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DeveloperCarl Muckenhoupt
PublisherCarl Muckenhoupt
Release date30 September 2001
GenresLanguage deciphering
VibesAbstract, Cryptic

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