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All in? (opens the original)
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From Willa Cather, The Professor’s House (1925)The story so far…Gifted university student Tom Outland has a mysterious past. Here, it is finally revealed how he made his way from New Mexico to the American Midwest…Now read on…The thing that side-tracked me and made me so late coming to college was a somewhat unusual accident, or string of accidents. It began with a poker game, when I was a call boy in Pardee, New Mexico.One cold, clear night in the fall I started out to hunt up a freight crew th
'A route of evanescence’ (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedA Route of Evanescence, With a revolving Wheel – A Resonance of Emerald A Rush of Cochineal – And every Blossom on the Bush Adjusts it’s tumbled Head – The Mail from Tunis – probably, An easy Morning’s Ride – <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!K5yd!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubsta
Ode on Melancholy (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedNo, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist Wolf's-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine; Nor suffer thy pale forehead to be kiss'd By nightshade, ruby grape of Proserpine; Make not your rosary of yew-berries, Nor let the beetle, nor the death-moth be Your mournful Psyche, nor the downy owl A partner in your sorrow's mysteries; For shade to shade will come too drowsily, And drown the wakeful ang
‘What has it got in its pocketses?’ (opens the original)
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Vafþrúðnismál (The Poem of Vafthrudnir) Odin, in disguise, challenges the giant Vafthrudnir to a wisdom contest, in which the winner kills the loser. They take turns asking each other questions, and it is assumed that the asker will already know the answer to the questions they ask. The stakes are high, and the giant seems very knowledgeable, so eventually Odin turns to nefarious means in order to win…Below is an excerpt from the poem, translated for LitHits by Dr Natasha A. J. Bradley. Now read
‘A wilderness of waggons’ (opens the original)
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From Anthony Trollope, The Prime Minister (1876)The Story So Far…Ferdinand Lopez is financially ruined. That morning, he tells his wife he is taking the train from London to Birmingham.Now Read On…After a while he went back into the hall and took a first-class return ticket, not for Birmingham, but for the Tenway Junction. It is quite unnecessary to describe the Tenway Junction, as everybody knows it. From this spot, some six or seven miles distant from London, lines diverge east, west, and nort
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