— 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 7 of 39
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The author, being informed of a design to accuse him of high-treason, makes his escape to Blefuscu. His reception there.
Before I proceed to give an account of my leaving this kingdom, it may be proper to inform the reader of a private intrigue which had been for two months forming against me.
I had been hitherto, all my life, a stranger to courts, for which I was unqualified by the meanness of my condition. I had indeed heard and read enough of the dispositions of great princes and ministers, but never expected to have found such terrible effects of them, in so remote a country, governed, as I thought, by very different maxims from those in Europe.
Chapter Vii.
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