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It’s perfect nonsense to suggest that, whether venal or mortal, It would announce itself with fanfare and hullabaloo, All but taking out a three-column ad in the trades To trumpet its arrival. Its métier has always been the dimly-lit corner, The whispered admonition, The ****** room in a somewhat undesirable neighborhood, And while it is certain that it accompanied us As we emerged, still scaly and seaweed strewn, from the sea, It did so on a light unsullied by moonlight, Surfacing silently with the least desirable of piscine attributes in tow.
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Jan 17, 2017
Jan 17, 2017 at 9:34 AM UTC
In Which We Respectfully, But Firmly, Take Issue With Stephen Crane's "Black Riders came from the sea"
It’s perfect nonsense to suggest that, whether venal or mortal, It would announce itself with fanfare and hullabaloo, All but taking out a three-column ad in the trades To trumpet its arrival. Its métier has always been the dimly-lit corner, The whispered admonition, The ****** room in a somewhat undesirable neighborhood, And while it is certain that it accompanied us As we emerged, still scaly and seaweed strewn, from the sea, It did so on a light unsullied by moonlight, Surfacing silently with the least desirable of piscine attributes in tow.
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Jan 17, 2017
Jan 17, 2017 at 9:34 AM UTC
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