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“I have answered three questions, and that is enough,
Said his father; dont give yourself airs!
Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?
Be off, or Ill kick you downstairs!”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)
“The history of all Magazines shows plainly that those which have attained celebrity were indebted for it to articles similar in natureto Berenicealthough, I grant you, far superior in style and execution. I say similar in nature. You ask me in what does this nature consist? In the ludicrous heightened into the grotesque: the fearful coloured into the horrible: the witty exaggerated into the burlesque: the singular wrought out into the strange and mystical.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091849)
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