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...ter and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a ... ... with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating poet and le... ...m ul cajigo isumnita. I sarem i wanhamnita." He threw in both names that the little guy went by and the telephone clicked off. He called again. "Yobos... ...ct ideas must not have existed in his head at all. In short, he "knew " very little and the scanty but pathetic information he received might, for wha... ...en a month ago that Sung Ki had left him. Sung Ki: even now the name sounded musical. After the video pang girl's attempt at marital entrapment, this... ...n thereafter Sang Huin lost the address book and key chain from the souvenir shop at the history museum Sung Ki had given to him. He lost both by leav... ...wife and children unbearable, and even his hobby of playing a cello was as a musical dilettante. He looked out of the window and smoothed out his hair... ...e in broken manhood that was contrary to his muscular form. He passed coffee shops, Samsung stores, a convenience store called Lawsons, and one called... ... and with a judicial system forcing the mutilated further into unprecedented horrors. Pusillanimous and cowering in fetal positions within themselves,...

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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would...

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...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...CA—a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called “Gopher Prairie, Minne- sot... ... the obscene Night Animals who jump out of closets 10 Main Street and eat little girls, but beneficent and bright-eyed crea- tures—the tam htab, who ... ...k up one side of one block, facing the railroad. It was a row of one-story shops covered with galvanized iron, or with clapboards painted red and bili... ...Avenue and despaired. 36 Main Street Main Street with its two-story brick shops, its story- and-a-half wooden residences, its muddy expanse from conc... ...fteen minutes Carol kept it up. She asserted that she was going to stage a musical comedy, that she pre- ferred cafe parfait to beefsteak, that she ho... ... came they joined in the expose. “My name is Elizabeth. I’m the celebrated musical tailor. The skirts fall for me by the thou. Do I get some more veal... ...th disgrace?” “N-no, but—” Sam avoided verdicts, clung to the en- trancing horrors of the story. “Ma Bogart cussed her out all morning, did she? Jumpe...