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Spectator Competition: It is what it is

2 November 2024

9:00 AM

2 November 2024

9:00 AM

In Comp. 3373 you were invited to mull on a line that Sigmund Freud almost certainly did not say, ‘Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar’, substituting another object if it seemed apt. In the event there was plenty about cigars as substitutes and not so much about their substitutes as substitutes.

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