— E.E. Cummings
It is said that if the dead who died in the Great
War were placed head to feet, they would stretch
from New York to San Francisco, and from San
Francisco back again to New York; and if those
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Chapter 36 of 39
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A grand debate at the general assembly of the Houyhnhnms, and how it was determined. The learning of the Houyhnhnms. Their buildings. Their manner of burials. The defectiveness of their language.
One of these grand assemblies was held in my time, about three months before my departure, whither my master went as the representative of our district. In this council was resumed their old debate, and indeed the only debate that ever happened in their country; whereof my master, after his return, gave me a very particular account.
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