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Tolkien’s Errantry
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No It Won’t
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Take Up Do
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Duo
… More then says because he’s in prison and only has a coal with which to write he can’t respond fully to the view that one ought harm an
The Weighty Beauty of the IBM Selectric III
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In the Beginning Were the Words
Alpha and Omega 1:1 In the beginning were the words. The words were the poet’s, and later the priest’s. And the words the
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