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An obscure but clearly impression-forming book of poems by Richard Brautigan, and a conspiratorial but nevertheless excellent documentary series by talented but impressionable — and impression-making — film-maker Adam Curtis.

Also shorthand for internal audit.

See also

• Wikipedia on the poems
• Wikipedia on the documentary series