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Michael Dean
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Architect-turned-writer, founder of Essay Architecture. Building pattern languages, software, anthologies, and community for essayists.

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Cranberry Sauce

· 56 words

One of the classic rumors in the Paul is Dead conspiracy is that if you play Strawberry Fields Forever backwards, you hear Lennon saying, “I buried Paul.” He’s more likely saying “Cranberry Sauce” (they both have X-bury x-Aw-x). It only finally clicked how Lennonesque the humor is to snarl cranberry sauce in a song about strawberries.