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Good evening, New Yorkers...
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and thank you for coming
to the first public reading...
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the first offering of any kind...
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of Truman Capote's new work,
In Cold Blood.
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Hello. My name is Truman Capote.
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For this evening's program,
I'm going to read some passages...
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from the first three parts of my new book.
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"The village of Holcomb stands on
the high wheat plains of western Kansas...
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"a Ionesome area
that other Kansans call 'out there. '
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"Until one morning in mid-November, 1959...
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"few Americans, in fact, few Kansans,
had ever heard of Holcomb.
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"Like the waters of the Arkansas River...
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"like the motorists on the highway...
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"exceptional happenings
never stopped there.