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A collection of stories about eccentric characters such as Martin Van Buchell, “surgeon, dentist, and professor in the art of cutting fistulas, &c, &c.” Francis Battalia, The Stone-Eater, who“devoured about half a peck of…
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Decorative telegram typically used for congratulatory messages.

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Songs recorded by participants in CORE's Freedom Highways project in the summer of 1962. The project was designed to open chain restaurants along major federal highways to all persons.

Vinyl LP and songbook.
Dauntless DM 4301, a division of Audio…
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Epigraphs: The Messiah will only come when he is no longer needed. --Franz Kafka It's the end of the world as we know it (And I feel fine.) --R.E.M.
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World War I pamphlet warning soldiers of the effect of sexually transmitted diseases.
From the William E. Blake Collection.
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Epigraphs: You don't need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Don't even listen, simply wait. Don't even wait. Be still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you. To be unmasked, it has no choice. It will roll…
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Part 1: The Evolution of Modesty, The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicty, Auto-Eroticism.
Part 2: Analysis of the Sexual Impulse, Love and Pain, The Sexual Impulse in Women
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"This is not an autobiography. God forbid! Autobiography is fueled by ego and I could make a long list of persons whose belly buttons I'd rather be contemplating than my own.... I'd like to think Tibetan Peach Pie isn't a memoir either, although it…
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