Murph came with us until he got too frail to swim across the riffled runs.

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What was once chemical and mechanical is now electronic and computer-rendered: a series of JPEGs being riffled through a drive.

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Once, when an antique cup and saucer went missing from a room, he confided that he actually riffled through the guests' luggage, which had been stored as they took a final spin around town.

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Then he elaborated for ten minutes while we listened, glanced, made notes, riffled the textbook to find refuge in print, some semblance of meaning that might be roughly equivalent to what he was saying.

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Dune after dune, rising and falling beneath his feet, then finally falling, falling, falling all the way to a gray-green-blue vastness, riffled, glinting, and crossed by the cloud shadows as far as the eye could see.

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