Homage to Mort Sahl.

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      It was common to hear him put down as a pale imitation of Lenny Bruce, but the truth is that Sahl got there first. It was common, in later years, to hear Sahl put down as a slow-motion, pale imitation of Lenny Bruce, but the truth is that Sahl got there first and Bruce was the follower. Sahl's career was unpredictable and vagrant from the start; he joined the ROTC at 15 to escape the boredom of high school and eventually went into the Army Air Forces. [Extracted from the article]
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