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The Crumbs: 2,200 Tiny Literary Surprises

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Alfredo Llaquet-Alsina’s archive of brief philosophical, cultural, comic, and speculative texts.

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The archive numbers its pieces individually and currently shows Crumbs 2197–2202, including a spaceship crew that ransoms rescued passengers, a compact argument against God, and an AI breakup joke. Its organizing principle is explicitly borrowed from Unix: small units, each meant to do one task well. Readers can move through eight volumes, an ongoing text file, YouTube video-books, or image versions on DeviantArt. The author also states that the texts are dedicated to the public domain.

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