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The many reasons why Christopher Smart loved his cat
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...Peas maker, Piano puncher, Ponty sucker, Ransacker...
The (Oddest) Occupations of the English People in 1881
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February 2023

Be aware that you too are an animal and dependent on the web of nature
The New Commandments, according to Christopher Hitchens
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You will stop talking to me if I request it
Einstein's demands
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72. A shirt of mail wore by the knights templars
A Catalogue of the Rarities, to be Seen at Don Saltero's Coffee-house: In Chelsea
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January 2023

Splatte that pyke
A list of cooking terms from 1508
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Eloquent silence
Walt Whitman's mournful synonyms
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I have a good appetite but never talk when eating for fear of strangling
Erik Satie's daily schedule
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33. WAKE UP AND FIGHT
Woody Guthrie's New Year's Rulin's
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December 2022

...screeching, lathered, plastered, soused, bloated, polluted, saturated, stinko...
The Lexicon of Prohibition
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Shaun Usher
If you have a bad voice, rather speak in a low tone
Advice to Young Ladies in 1830
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THE ROAD RUNNER CANNOT HARM THE COYOTE EXCEPT BY GOING “BEEP-BEEP!”
Chuck Jones' 9 Golden Rules
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