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March 21, 2013 •
Foreign, Urban •
1583
For my humor’s sake, I shall preserve the style in which I once narrated it at Lima, to a lounging circle of my Spanish friends, one saint’s eve, smoking upon the thick-gilt tiled piazza of the Golden Inn. Of those fine cavaliers, the young Dons,...
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November 5, 2012 •
Lifestyle •
1146
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is...
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November 3, 2012 •
Formats, Sport •
1637
The man who escaped at the former place tells a wonderful story of the strangeness of its coiling flow, and how he looked down from the church spire and saw the houses of the village rising like ghosts out of its inky nothingness. For a day and a half he...
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November 2, 2012 •
Design, Nature •
1602
Both were silent again, as one man. The grey dawn came on, and the slumbering crew arose from the boat’s bottom, and ere noon the dead whale was brought to the ship. The season for the Line at length drew near; and every day when Ahab, coming from his...
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March 21, 2012 •
Formats, Urban •
1354
The Lion thought it might be as well to frighten the Wizard, so he gave a large, loud roar, which was so fierce and dreadful that Toto jumped away from him in alarm and tipped over the screen that stood in a corner. As it fell with a crash they looked that...
