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tomorrow when the sun is still in its seed
tomorrow when the sun is still in its seedbefore the seed cracks and the first lightsprouts then spreads like a sudden vinetoward dusseldorf and cologne tomorrowremain blind as a mole ratthough the voice of the nightjarrestores your hearing and the song of the robin cures your senses remain blinddusk yourself back into dreamdusk yourself deaf Continue reading
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(the horatio monologues) xx
robbers and the rulersof the domains through which you’d gothey watch the roads for passing fortunes they can seizeor for fortunate people they can spend on a ransom rather than four guilders paid at the first of each of the five months that followpay for the first three months when he signsand for the last Continue reading
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(the horatio monologues) xviii
to the bottom of a first page of parchment sew the topof a secondand to the bottom of the second sewthe top of a thirdsew until the page islong enough to host the names of two thousand menand beside their names their signatures or their marks Continue reading
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(the horatio monologues) xvi
want his wife to behis accomplice who removesthe purse from the pouchthe brooch on a chain from the neckthe ruby on the ring from the finger removesthe doublet of brocade from the torsothe pluderhosen (1) made of silk from the trunkpointed poulaines (2) from the feet wanthis wife to chew a leaf of henbane (3) Continue reading
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(the horatio monologues) xiii
Between wars in early modern Europe, soldiers often were idle and sometimes engaged in criminal activity. It wasn’t unusual for commanders to rid towns, villages, and the country of undesirables by recruiting them.xiiiimpress charm recruit a highwayman on horsebacka fugitive on foot Continue reading
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