Preface to all four parts: In the face of a brutal, brutal bull run over the past ten years, the past twelve months, and the past nine weeks, a lot of otherwise good shorts have been obliterated. I have a stable of 40 surviving shorts, which I am sharing this weekend in four equal parts.
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