"Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind, as it is related of Lord Chatham that he was accustomed to read in Bailey's Dictionary when he was preparing to speak in Parliament." (Emerson, "The Poet")
the English carrier; the short-faced tumbler; the runt; the barb; the pouter; the turbit; the Jacobin; the trumpeter; the laugher; the fantail (some of the pigeon breeds mentioned by Darwin in The Origin of Species. "The runt is a bird of great size," he reports)
Lilith sees a celebrity in the cemetery
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"He tro you one shakah!" said everyone to whom I showed my photo of Jason
Mamoa on a Harley-Davidson at Valley of the Temples. The woman at the gate
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