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Excerpt from Essays of Serious Spoofing
May I digress a minute to show what I mean by the inconvenience of modern learning? This happened at a summer boarding-house where I spent a portion of the seasdnof rest, in com pany with a certain number of ordinary, igno4 rant people like myself; We got on well to gether. In the evening on the veranda we talked of nature and of. Its beauties, of the stars and-why they were so far away - we didn't know their names, thank goodness - and such like simple topics of conversation.
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