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		<title>The Angel of the Odd &#8211; An Extravaganza</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 04:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IT WAS a chilly November afternoon. I had just consummated an unusually hearty dinner, of which the dyspeptic truffe formed not the least important item, and was sitting alone in the dining–room, with my feet upon the fender, and at my elbow a small table which I had rolled up to the fire, and upon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IT&#8217;S on my visiting cards sure enough (and it&#8217;s them that&#8217;s all o&#8217; pink satin paper) that inny gintleman that plases may behould the intheristhin words, &#8220;Sir Pathrick O&#8217;Grandison, Barronitt, 39 Southampton Row, Russell Square, Parrish o&#8217; Bloomsbury.&#8221; And shud ye be wantin&#8217; to diskiver who is the pink of purliteness quite, and the laider [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Never Bet the Devil Your Head</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 04:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Tale With a Moral CON tal que las costumbres de un autor,&#8221; says Don Thomas de las Torres, in the preface to his &#8220;Amatory Poems&#8221; &#8220;sean puras y castas, importo muy poco que no sean igualmente severas sus obras&#8221;– meaning, in plain English, that, provided the morals of an author are pure personally, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Sundays in a Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 07:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[YOU hard–headed, dunder–headed, obstinate, rusty, crusty, musty, fusty, old savage!&#8221; said I, in fancy, one afternoon, to my grand uncle Rumgudgeon– shaking my fist at him in imagination. Only in imagination. The fact is, some trivial discrepancy did exist, just then, between what I said and what I had not the courage to say– between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Devil in the Belfry</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 14:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What o'clock is it? Old Saying. EVERYBODY knows, in a general way, that the finest place in the world is– or, alas, was– the Dutch borough of Vondervotteimittiss. Yet as it lies some distance from any of the main roads, being in a somewhat out–of–the–way situation, there are perhaps very few of my readers who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four Beasts in One &#8211; The Homo-Cameleopard</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chacun a ses vertus. CREBILLON'S Xerxes. ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES is very generally looked upon as the Gog of the prophet Ezekiel. This honor is, however, more properly attributable to Cambyses, the son of Cyrus. And, indeed, the character of the Syrian monarch does by no means stand in need of any adventitious embellishment. His accession to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loss of Breath</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Tale Neither In nor Out of "Blackwood" O Breathe not, etc. Moore's Melodies THE MOST notorious ill–fortune must in the end yield to the untiring courage of philosophy– as the most stubborn city to the ceaseless vigilance of an enemy. Shalmanezer, as we have it in holy writings, lay three years before Samaria; yet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>King Pest</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Tale Containing an Allegory The gods do bear and will allow in kings The things which they abhor in rascal routes. Buckhurst's Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex. ABOUT twelve o'clock, one night in the month of October, and during the chivalrous reign of the third Edward, two seamen belonging to the crew of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Man That Was Used Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Tale of the Late Bugaboo and Kickapoo Campaign Pleurez, pleurez, mes yeux, et fondez vous en eau! La moitie de ma vie a mis l'autre au tombeau.--CORNEILLE I CANNOT just now remember when or where I first made the acquaintance of that truly fine–looking fellow, Brevet Brigadier General John A. B. C. Smith. Some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bon-Bon</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quand un bon vin meuble mon estomac Je suis plus savant que Balzac- Plus sage que Pibrac; Mon brass seul faisant l'attaque De la nation Coseaque, La mettroit au sac; De Charon je passerois le lac En dormant dans son bac, J'irois au fier Eac, Sans que mon coeur fit tic ni tac, Premmer du [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tale of Jerusalem</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intensos rigidam in frontem ascendere canos Passus erat Lucan --a bristly bore. Translation &#8220;LET us hurry to the walls,&#8221; said Abel–Phittim to Buzi–Ben–Levi and Simeon the Pharisee, on the tenth day of the month Thammuz, in the year of the world three thousand nine hundred and forty–one– &#8220;let us hasten to the ramparts adjoining the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lionizing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[-all people went Upon their ten toes in wild wondernment. Bishop Hall's Satires. I AM, that is to say I was, a great man, but I am neither the author of Junius nor the man in the mask, for my name, I believe, is Robert Jones, and I was born somewhere in the city of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Duc De L&#8217;Omelette</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And stepped at once into a cooler clime. Cowper KEATS fell by a criticism. Who was it died of &#8220;The Andromache&#8221;? [1] Ignoble souls!– De L&#8217;Omelette perished of an ortolan. L&#8217;histoire en est breve. Assist me, Spirit of Apicius! [1]Montfleury. The author of the Parnasse Reforme makes him thus speak in Hades:– &#8220;L&#8217;homme donc qui [...]]]></description>
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