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My penultimate Foe (not including Coetzee's)
Jun 23, 2020 12:23PM
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On his third marriage now, a good'un too, until...

she first took this Cordial... and from a Drop to a Sup, from a Sup to a Dram, from a Dram to a Glass, and so on to Two, till at last, she took in short, to what we call drinking.
Jul 01, 2020 11:51AM
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W.D. Clarke is on page 56 of 317
This (1722) is actually pretty good (so far)!
(O.O.P. though)
18 years have passed since that debacle of a debut and blue ruin of boredom which was The Storm (1704)—demonstrating that the answer to the perennial question "What can a poor boy do?" is "Improve thyself"!

https://www.etymonline.com/word/impro...
Jun 27, 2020 02:14PM
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message 1: by W.D. (last edited Jun 24, 2020 09:57AM) (new) - rated it 3 stars

W.D. Clarke Quite the title page:



message 2: by W.D. (last edited Jun 24, 2020 10:03AM) (new) - rated it 3 stars

W.D. Clarke The Introduction even sez it's his most hastily edited, most "conspicuously untidy" text, the "work of a tired man" who later "died of a lethargy"!


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