unearths some literary gems.
Snippets from The Idler, May 1892:
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[Israel Zangwill, in the midst of parodying Oscar Wilde with a string of paradoxical assertions, culminates thus:]
"Vice is the only perfect form of virtue, and virtue——Easy there! Steady! Avast! Belay! Which!"
[Note the double em dash he used, btw.]
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I have heard much concerning the tuneful cry of the gondolier....My gondolier was extremely taciturn, however.
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[As for the attachments...it's parrots all the way down.]