The Syndicate is a slavish imitation of The Hardy Boys, with the following exceptions:

• Frank is a brain in a vat. His only means of physical agency is via a colony of robotic bats.
• Joe is dead. He (or some entity pretending to be him) speaks via voices in Frank’s head and (occasionally) via Skype.
• Aunt Gertrude is an amoral mercenary.

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Exquisite Corpse is a method by which a dream is collectively assembled. Each collaborator sleeps with the dream bundle in sequence. The game ends when a player opens the bundle or refuses to give it up.

André Breton writes that the game developed at the residence of friends in an old house at 54 rue du Chateau.

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Jon Johannsen, author of Audible Landscaping, has a backyard greenhouse full of audible plants, including:

• Slow-Horn, Darlingtonia Pneumonica, with lung-like structures that inhale at night and exhale during the day.
• Northern Guan, Pinguicula Calama, whose noxious squeal drove it close to extinction before it caught on with hobbyists.
• Kjamantchi, Genlisea Cithara, whose long strands sing in the wind.

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