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Definition of the concept of The Right Stuff Literature Essay
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The book carries an intellectual feel to it, which envelops the achievements of The Mercury Seven, astronauts selected for the NASA space program who had ‘the right stuff’ in them. The book tries to explain the concept of ‘the right stuff’ which the astronauts had that proved them to be the heroes of their times.
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The Romantic Fantastic by Tobin Siebers Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that in the world of the supernatural, frogs can turn into princes at the touch of the beautiful princess, and princesses can be awakened by the kiss of a heroic prince. The domain of the supernatural, then, is the realm of the fairy tale, of fantasy literature in which the author's creative imagination knows no ground rules.
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The Thousand and One Nights Literature Essay
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However, to understand the basic interpretation of the approach a little background research is needed. The story of Thousand and One Nights is actually the compilation of stories by a queen Scheherazade to the king Shahryar in order to trick the king to keep her alive.
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Dracula and the Frankeinstein Literature Book Report/Review
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The researcher of the essay explores both the movie and the book by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. He provides a detailed analysis of what was similar or different in both creations in this essay. It is alo mentiones, that reading the novel excites the imagination and watching the film helps in reaching it.
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A&P by John Updike Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Updike manages to create confusion and curiosity in his readers by not revealing the true setting of the story and by giving details and facts related to the story in bits and pieces. There is also the element of a plot – the plot Updikes comes up with is often fascinating and hard not to critically acclaim.
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Urban Anthropology Literature Essay
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Urban Anthropology Sanjeck's concern in "Future Ahead of Us All" is essentially what the implications of this mean. In addition the approaches used will be compared and contrasted in the context of Sanjek's research. In this book Sanjek uses an ethnographic approach.
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Book Review on The Congo-Zaire Experience 1960-98 Literature Essay
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Throughout the book there is the underlying theme of a totalitarian mentality dominant both from the side of the colonizers and local war lords, struggling for personal and tribal power through any means possible, particularly through violence.
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Surpassing the Passive Hero in Waverly by Sir Walter Scott Literature Essay
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The passage of time has led to many of his ideas seem to become rather dated and perhaps obsolete, especially regarding the various manifestations of the “hero” that he creates in his novels. In his discussion of the Waverly Novels, Welsh suggests that most of Scott’s characters are enduringly passive, rather unsuited for the heroic action that they indulge in.
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Sexy by Jhumpa Lahiris Literature Essay
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According to the research findings, it can, therefore, be said that with flowing narrative, Lahiri unfolds the complexity of human relationships, in this story that touches everyone. As a result of research, it was suggested that the story develops on the subject of the immigration and the discovery of the foreign.
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All Animals Are Equal by Peter Singer Literature Book Report/Review
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According to the author, the liberation movement should expand our moral horizons and open up a reinterpretation of the basic moral principle of equality. The author attempts to maintain that equal rights to animals cannot be denied on the basis of the argument that humans and nonhumans are different and should not have equal rights.
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Emma by Jane Austen Literature Essay
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In other words this character can be better understood by the short summary of the main events which occurred with Emma during the whole novel.A rich, clever, and beautiful young woman, Emma Woodhouse was no more spoiled and self-satisfied than one would expect under such circumstances. She had just seen her friend, companion, and former governess, Miss Taylor, married to a neighboring widower, Mr.
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Friendly Fire - the Accidental Shootdown of the US Black Hawks over Northern Iraq by Scott Snook Literature Essay
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“Friendly fire” is a military phrase and refers to the unintended attack by friendly forces, largely as a result of mistaken identity. Historically, its occurrence has been steadily increasing in US warfare from the killing of Confederate Lieutenant General "Stonewall" Jackson in the Civil War to that of Army Ranger Pat Tillman in Afghanistan (Jones 38-41).
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Hucks changing view on independence Literature Essay
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While experience of living alone was helpful to Swift's Robinson Crusoe in becoming a stronger person, it was not an easy experience. What Crusoe missed most of all was the companionship and help of other men, so he was very happy to be found and rescued from his lonely island.
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Preface to Shakespeare by Samuel Johnson Literature Essay
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A seemingly simple, harmless, and the ordinary act of having scholarly discussions, had become a heroic act to be shrouded in secrecy, to be shared by a private few and held precious in the hearts of those gathered. It seemed, to Dr. Nafisi, due to the very deprivation of opportunities to carry on such normal activities, the defiance to subjugation grew.
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Research on Chicano background and plays Literature Essay
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Raymund Paudes uses the term Chicano to refer to people of Mexican ancestry who have resided permanently in the United States for a prolonged period. Chicanos can be native born citizens or Mexican born immigrants who have adapted to life in the US.
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The Shadow of Captain Bligh Literature Book Report/Review
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The author describes the thoughts that came to his mind on a particular evening when he had been listening to Haydn's composition Mass for St. Cecilia, a partially lost composition until a certain Dr. Brand recovered it sometime around the middle of the twentieth century and which had hardly been heard performed.
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How the Garca Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the protagonists, Sofia, Sandra, Yolanda and Carla continuously face challenges that bring to light the main themes of memory, the search for identity and reconciliation. Julia Alvarez employs a mix of first-person and third-person narration in reverse chronological order.
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Warner and Massa - Basically Similar and Yet Different in Depth Literature Book Report/Review
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Warner’s approach is more academic having made additional research to provide a basis on the characteristics of the concepts of feudalism and capitalism. Massa on the other hand based her analysis on the basic definition of both economic concepts. Massa was able to identify the concepts of both feudalism and capitalism as much as Warner.   
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Theme in Faulkners: A Rose for Emily Literature Book Report/Review
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The clash between the Old Order and the New appears in many different forms throughout the story and becomes its principal unifying theme. An intuitive artist, Faulkner instinctively latched onto the technical devices of his time and perfected them to express the Southern myth. The past is represented through the characters of Emily, Colonel Sartoris, Tobe and Judge Stevens, whereas Homer Barron, the anonymous narrator and the new aldermen come to represent the present times.
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Boccaccios Decameron Literature Book Report/Review
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First, he insulted her with injurious words, and five years after their daughter's birth, he took the girl away from her mother to be killed. Unknown to Griselda, the girl was taken to Bologna to be raised by his noble friends. Gualtieri did the same after the birth of their second child, a boy.
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Gwendolyn Brooks We Real Cool and Maya Angelous Phenomenal Woman Literature Assignment
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Men are considered significant and supreme; powerful and relevant. Women, even after women’s liberation and her rights to suffrage acknowledged, still echo their inner desire for significance and acceptance. Being “cool”, which connotes men’s composure just by simply being himself, is a word almost always attached to men.
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The Fomorians who turned their backs on the sea of Eire Literature Book Report/Review
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The Fomorians were not a people of people of peace, the land they lived in was harsh and cold, infested with the mischievous and often cruel fairy kind. From this, the Fomorians became a people of cruelty and violence, who sough only to further their enslavement of the Partholon and Nemod.
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The Epic of Gilgamesh Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Lachros had even heard to say that there was nothing the gods could do that a human being could not do if he applied reason and logic to the situation. Nidstye was particularly affronted by this concept for he was the God of Choices. Nidstye had two bodies and two heads that he could tear.
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The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost Literature Book Report/Review
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Robert Frost’s short poem could, perhaps, also be considered elegiac in a sense, highlighting as it does the brief life of the choices open to humankind. In fact, there is an obvious element of regret in Frost’s poem too, especially in his “sigh” (236) in the last stanza. The first stanza of “To An Athlete, Dying Young” recalls the athlete’s most triumphant moment.
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On Arm Wrestling with my Father by Brad Manning Literature Book Report/Review
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The conclusion states that the essay “On arm wrestling with my father” is a well-written tribute to the author’s love for his father, along with all the trials and tribulations that came with it. It is a warm retrospective that enjoins us somehow to all look back our relationships with our fathers, and to appreciate the love and care that was bestowed upon us long ago, unsaid or not.
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The Central Methodological Difficulty That Rousseau Is Faced With Literature Essay
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Ivan Ilych begins to hate all examples of health and vitality that he sees around him: he cannot stand to see his wife, his daughter, or her fiancé. What is more, and what marks these members of his family our from Gerasim and his youngest son, is that he cannot bear what he has come to see as their hypocrisy and their falseness.
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Symbols of Life and Death in Franz Kafkas The Castle Literature Book Report/Review
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Franz Kafka represents existentialistic perspective in literature, and his novel titled “The Castle” is known as the quintessence of the philosophy claiming that human existence is pointless, but one might find there sincere absurd and comedy, mixed with personal tragedies, identified as trivial issues.
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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the story is narrated by Janie through an unlimited flashback to her best friend Pheoby who narrates the story to the curious society on her behalf. Janie is a young woman who's grandmother, a borne slave for whom living in comfort implies being just able to sit on the porch.
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The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop Literature Book Report/Review
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However, as time goes on, and as she takes a deeper look at the fish, she develops a feeling of sympathy for the creature, thus setting it free. Her strong desire to consume her prey then vanishes when she takes a closer look at the fish and realizes his pitiful, sickly state.
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How the Internet Lowers Prices Literature Essay
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The situation may occur that a substantial group of consumers who used (or did not used) Internet got low price due to another reason (seasonal discount, referral program, etc.), which is correlated with the use of the Internet. The impact of unobserved factors is not investigated enough in the presented hedonic regression model in the article.
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Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer Literature Book Report/Review
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Thus, the reviewer concentrates on giving the exact details of the elements that really make the well-written book by Krakauer and he offers his main argument in a logical way which tells why he considers the book as a superior product.
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Jane Eyre as a Bildungsroman Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that through textual analysis of three episodes of the novel this essay argues that motives of the quest for one’s identity, psychological growth, and individual responsibility correspond well with patterns of Bildungsroman, while certain narrative devices employed by Bronte allow her to offer her readers an insight into nature.
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The Golden Legend Literature Essay
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To what extent do you think that this is true? I do not think that this essay’s opening statement-question is true. The martyrs died in defense of their faith. The male martyrs were not challenged sexually.
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Case Closed Literature Book Report/Review
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Carol hung up the phone and glanced at her watch. It was 3:30 and still no message from Jim. She knew he was probably on his way home from his small real estate business downtown. The rain had probably delayed him, or there may have been heavy traffic on I-34 due to construction and the weather.   
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Comparison of Mother Jones and the Beat within Magazines Literature Essay
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I was surprised to read real, well-constructed thoughts from the inside of the minds of kids from the ‘hood that landed in jail. The Beat gives a voice to those whom many would choose to ignore and the insights offered regarding the adults in charge of these young people reveal a well-founded skepticism.
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Herman Melvilles short novels Literature Book Report/Review
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The author analyzes each novel and covers a number of interesting points such as: effective use of deception and disguise in"Benito Cereno" and the topic of "going against the grain" in the "Bartleby the Scrivener". In the end of the essay, the author concludes and analyzes the contribution of each novel in the international literature.
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Shakespeares Earliest Tragedies Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Hamlet is trapped in a cycle of violence born of the incompatibility of the heart and mind. Hamlet, the hero of the play is the son of the king of Denmark, who has died less than two months ago. He is a soldier, a scholar, and a diplomat and ordinary people like him. The play depicts the stupidity, and sham of everyday life.
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Iago, in William Shakespeare's Othello, as a Devil(Satanic) Figure Literature Literature review
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Near the end of the play, Iago retreats into himself as he is threatened and damned by those who have been left alive. It is almost as if his mission has been accomplished and so he has little care for what happens to his physical body. This is embodied within his promise to “never speak a word” from that point on in his life.
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The things they Carried Literature Research Paper
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By narrating and representing war trauma through personal memory and fiction, O'Brien is able to revisit and retell the war to achieve a potential redemption in reality. He also shows how soldiers are dehumanized during the Vietnam War and how they have become machines rather than actual human beings with a will of their own.
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Alex Espinoza's Still Water Saints Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the narrative and spiritual center of the novel and the town is Perla Portillo's Botanica Oshun. There she sells potions, candles, salves and all other forms of solutions to the problems that people in the town come to her with. Throughout the novel, Espinoza's focuses on a number of themes throughout the work.
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Kazuo Ishiguro and Charles Dickens Literature Book Report/Review
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Ishiguro’s main protagonist, Stevens, in The Remains Of the Day speaks in the first person narrative because he wants to present directly the thoughts and stream of consciousness effectively to the readers.
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A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf Literature Book Report/Review
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The occasion that serves as a framing device for her discourse has the speaker honoring a request to address the graduating class of a women's college in 1928.  For the occasion, the author in her personae as "Mary Seton" has been asked to speak on the topic of "women and fiction". Finding the topic deceptively simple, she muses on its meaning.
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Friendship and Companionship in Moby Dick by Herman Melville Literature Literature review
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Ishmael says he became sensible of strange feelings. These are in fact not any particular feelings such as related to joy or sorrow, but are just “feelings.” Ishmael is inundated with “feeling” – an uncategorised expansive emotion. And then he feels a melting inside him. This is a very characteristic response accompanying the awakening of the heart.
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Zadie Smith's White Teeth Literature Book Report/Review
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The writer presents a multiethnic fabric with brilliancy and understanding, and all the characters are fully and vibrantly sketched. The dialogues were humorous, sensitive, sensible and without pretension. The writer received rave reviews for her first book.
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Face of Eve and the modern woman in photography today Literature Essay
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That was the origin, as Genesis declares it, and till today, Eve is blamed for the fall of the human race. Woman has always played second fiddle to man, be it in the Creation, history, and for that matter, any aspect of life, domesticity, society or work.
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Lord Of The Flies Analysis Literature Essay
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William Golding’s Lord of the Flies presents human society and human nature in highly negative and pessimistic terms. Human nature, within the context of this particular story, is incontrovertibly savage.  When social and legal controls are removed and humans are left to their own devices, they revert to their animalistic, bestial nature. 
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Character of Beowulf Literature Book Report/Review
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According to the research findings, the character of Beowulf was a heroic character, however, his belief in himself and his overconfidence was what ultimately cause his death. He was heroic and conceited, until his final fight on the battlefield. Never giving up and never flinching, Beowulf fought to the death and showed true power and courage, perfect traits for any legendary hero.
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Gold by Nathan Lewis Literature Book Report/Review
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In “The Bretton Woods Gold Standard” (Chapter 10) Lewis shows a clear picture of the Great Depression in America, which has ever been one of the most discussed topics for the eminent economists across the globe. Political leaders, however, took more prominent steps to solve the actual problem.
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The Catcher in the Rye Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that although Holden depicts a delinquent juvenile believed to be a disturbing influence on the youth, he is actually just a misunderstood and confused young man badly affected by the harsh realities of life. No one can deny Holden’s explicit use of words or his being extremely judgmental of the things.
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The Truth of Love: William Shakespeares Sonnet #116 Literature Book Report/Review
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The techniques used by Shakespeare to portray his belief of the unwavering resilience of true love are as beautiful and artful as they are successful. He, also, clearly believes what he writes as his final lines of Sonnet #116, “If this be error and upon me proved/ I never writ, nor no man ever loved.”
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