— 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 5 of 39
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The author, by an extraordinary stratagem, prevents an invasion. A high title of honour is conferred upon him. Ambassadors arrive from the emperor of Blefuscu, and sue for peace. The empress’s apartment on fire by an accident; the author instrumental in saving the rest of the palace.
Chapter V.
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