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The Generous Gambler

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Yesterday, across the crowd of the boulevard, I found myself touched by a mysterious Being I had always desired to know, and whom I recognized immediately, in spite of the fact that I had never seen him. He had, I imagined, in himself, relatively as to me, a similar desire, for he gave me, in passing, so significant a sign in his eyes that I hastened to obey him. I followed him attentively, and soon I descended behind him into a subterranean dwelling, astonishing to me as a vision, where shone a luxury of which none of the actual houses in Paris could give me an approximate example. It seemed to me singular that I had passed so often that prodigious retreat without having discovered the entrance. There reigned an exquisite, an almost stifling atmosphere, which made one forget almost instantaneously all the fastidious horrors of life; there I breathed a somber sensuality, like that of opium smokers when, set on the shore of an enchanted island over which shone an eternal afternoon, they...

An Excuse To Post Some Wallace Tripp

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    HE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled; The flame that lit the battleā€™s wreck Shone round him oā€™er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm; A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though childlike form. The flames rolled on ā€” he would not go Without his fatherā€™s word; That father, faint in death below, His voice no longer heard. He called aloud ā€” "Say, father, say, If yet my task is done?" He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his so...

Water, Water, Everywhere

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Like one, that on a lonesome road  Doth walk in fear and dread,  And having once turned round walks on,  And turns no more his head;  Because he knows, a frightful fiend  Doth close behind him tread.    From The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge.  1834.

The Stars My Destination

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  Gully Foyle is my name And Terra is my nation. Deepest space my dwelling place, The Stars my destination. (Gulliver Foyle, common sailor, has been living in an airtight tool locker for six months.  He has no memory of how he got there.  He frequently has to pump a patched spacesuit with air and comb the wreckage of the ship to find oxygen, water and food.  The SS Nomad has been destroyed by some act of war.  Gully is at the end of his rope.  He has left the tool locker to search for food, the suit will hold 5 minutes of air and no more. Then he sees a ship).  He gave the approaching spaceship one pleading look, then shot down to the tool locker and pumped his suit full.  He mounted to the control bridge. Through the starboard observation port he saw the spaceship, stern rockets still flaring, evidently making a major alteration in course, for it was bearing down on him very slowly.  On the panel marked FLARES, Foyle pressed the DISTRESS but...

Dalmation Damnation

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It's Not A Dog!

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  "Get the hell away! That's not a dog, it's some sort of thing! It's imitating a dog, it isn't real! GET AWAY YOU IDIOTS!!" https://youtu.be/NxREumyGQ_Y Norbert Wiesser as Lars, who is having a very bad day Woof.

Billy's Big Day

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Billy is very fond of children, especially little girls.  He often buys them treats and toys.  His neighbors have learned of this, and want to express their appreciation in person.  He will be attending a party given in his honor!