Admit it—when you think “poet,” you’re picturing someone doing a 1950s-era beatnik impersonation, snapping their fingers while jazz plays in the background, over-enunciating and speaking in William Shatner-esque rhythms. In reality, poets have an incredible effect on the language we all speak—think of the scene in The Devil Wears Prada where Miranda Priestly explains how […]
I was strolling carelessly and solo from the cook-wagon toward one of the two tents--which protestingly housed some forty huddling Americans by night--holding in my hand an historic morceau de chocolat, when a spick, not to say span, gentleman in a suspiciously quiet French uniform allowed himself to be driven up to the bureau, by two neat soldiers with tin derbies, in a Renault whose painful cleanliness shamed my recent efforts. This must be a general at least, I thought, regretting the extremely undress character of my uniform, which uniform consisted of overalls and a cigarette.
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The Enormous Room
I was strolling carelessly and solo from the cook-wagon toward one of the two tents--which protestingly housed some forty huddling Americans by night--holding in my hand an historic morceau de chocolat, when a spick, not to say span, gentleman in a suspiciously quiet French uniform allowed himself to be driven up to the bureau, by two neat soldiers with tin derbies, in a Renault whose painful cleanliness shamed my recent efforts. This must be a general at least, I thought, regretting the extremely undress character of my uniform, which uniform consisted of overalls and a cigarette.
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BN ID: | 2940151487214 |
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Publisher: | Dons Ebooks |
Publication date: | 03/07/2015 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 282 |
File size: | 237 KB |
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