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Conversations with Goethe

The English, Goethe said in parting, are the shining brown varnish on the sad chiffonier of civilization. Lieutenant Whitby blushed most noticeably.

18. August 2008 by The Geecologist
Quoted from Donald Barthelme written in 1987

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The Educational Experience

What a wonderful time you’ll have, we told them, when the experience is over, done, completed. You will all, we told them, be more beautiful than you are now, and more employable too. You will have a grasp of the …
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20. July 2008 by The Geecologist
Quoted from Donald Barthelme written in 1987

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