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JL;DR SUMMARY In this whimsical and surreal tale by Leslie Epstein, centenarian Leib Goldkorn recounts an extraordinary night on his 104th birthday in his childhood home in the Czech Republic. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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AgingMemoryCultural ReferencesLeslie EpsteinHumorCreative WritingCzech RepublicFantasyLeib GoldkornBoston University

Places mentioned

Jihlava, Vysočina, Czechia
"They took place on the night of my 104th birthday, in my birthplace of Iglaunow, in the Czech Republic, the town of Jihlava."
Vienna, Austria
"Herr Doktor Freud, of nearby Vienna, might say that this was the reason I in the grip of a primitive instinct threw off my nightshirt and lurched forward on all fours."

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