The ʻshaggy Dogʼ Story: Its Origin, Development, and Nature (with a Few Seemly Examples) |
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... piece of paper stuck on the road , and it gave a gleam of white just where the collar would be . Well , I was walking backwards and forwards across the critical point - that is , where the optical illusion ceased to opp , as it were ...
... piece of paper stuck on the road , and it gave a gleam of white just where the collar would be . Well , I was walking backwards and forwards across the critical point - that is , where the optical illusion ceased to opp , as it were ...
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... piece . One night , while everyone was listening raptly to a most artistic rendering of Handel's ' Largo ' , a famous music - hall manager strolled in , to quench a raging thirst . Suddenly the visitor realized that , whoever was ...
... piece . One night , while everyone was listening raptly to a most artistic rendering of Handel's ' Largo ' , a famous music - hall manager strolled in , to quench a raging thirst . Suddenly the visitor realized that , whoever was ...
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... piece with spectacular virtuosity . ' Anything else you'd like ? ' " Yes , Liszt's " Hungarian Rhapsody " —that very fast , difficult one all the most florid pianists love to play - and so seldom can . ' ( That'll fox him , he thought ...
... piece with spectacular virtuosity . ' Anything else you'd like ? ' " Yes , Liszt's " Hungarian Rhapsody " —that very fast , difficult one all the most florid pianists love to play - and so seldom can . ' ( That'll fox him , he thought ...
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