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It's Thursday, May 29th. From slate, it's the gist I'm Mike Pasca.

So the Ritz Carlton Hotel is inviting fans. Fans? Anyway, well-heeled travelers to submit six word stories that they call six word wow's about staying in the Ritz Carlton and they'll be turned into ads here are some examples.

Honeymoon lost camera priceless memories reimagined dinner till dawn laughter years regained dinner till dawn. Here's your 4 30 a.m. pork chop sir. Yeah, I got one. I got one.

Sad on bed naked. How many others did too? Don't think and that is why they don't do 11 word essays. Anyway, this whole six word fiction.

It's sometimes called flash fiction. I guess back when flash mobs were seen as cool and not as a new way to say wilding to scare Fox News viewers.

Anyway, six word fiction stems from this story about Hemingway. Probably didn't happen, but Hemingway composed the world's shortest short story and it was the following for sale.

Baby shoes never worn.

Now let's first second put aside the fact that the Ritz Carlton is launching an ad campaign inspired by a terstile of infant mortality.

But there's this anyone who has ever had a baby has also had at least one pair and possibly many pairs of baby shoes that were never worn. There's no tragedy involved right there's no story involved right now on eBay.

I looked up baby shoes for four year olds there are 13,147 never worn pair on sale. So then I said all right well what about specifically let's think about Hemingway killed himself and catch him Idaho.

I went to Craigslist in Idaho in Boise never worn baby shoes size five tags still on an original price 42 exclamation. It just isn't the sad tragedy that Hemingway imagined.

For sale baby shoes only becomes a short story when we ponder it and when I tell you this is a short story of great import.

It's actually a remarkable feat of filling in the blanks of the meaning of a thing being almost entirely influenced by the context of the thing.

Baby shoes never worn is a literary genre with a deep debt to a ubiquitous eBay offering for sale.

The element never licked on today's show there is tumult a foot on Wall Street the age of hostile takeover bids and barbarians at the gate may be back and Jordan Ellenburg is written a new book.

It's called how not to be wrong and it's all based on math. I love math and finally my spiel I'll talk about the passing of the creator of an iconic graphic and related to that in some way will be playing a game.

Here's a tease what is one plus say one plus equal seven in some way it's related to that I don't want to tell you too much but first hostile takeover is hedge funds and boat talks.

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