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A man past forty , who lives in Indiana , has spent most of his life " inventing things " which others use . One day early in July , he opened his heart in a long , pathetic letter to the narrator of these incidents , in which was this ...
A man past forty , who lives in Indiana , has spent most of his life " inventing things " which others use . One day early in July , he opened his heart in a long , pathetic letter to the narrator of these incidents , in which was this ...
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And one of the things that make others seem so queer to us , that make us continually repeat that there is no ac- counting for tastes , is the unusual chan- nel into which some people choose to turn their activities .
And one of the things that make others seem so queer to us , that make us continually repeat that there is no ac- counting for tastes , is the unusual chan- nel into which some people choose to turn their activities .
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Why , an odd sort of govern- ment engineer who did not happen to be interested in any one of the million or more things that ordinary people are in- terested in , prepared the plans of a sort of artificial Gibraltar .
Why , an odd sort of govern- ment engineer who did not happen to be interested in any one of the million or more things that ordinary people are in- terested in , prepared the plans of a sort of artificial Gibraltar .
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