Book description
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections
such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact,
or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, andā¦
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Long before people had any tolerance for such nonsenseāmeaning back in 1822āan anonymous genius published an version of the life of Lord Nelson unlike any other. I mean specifically that this book, Albion, is 234 pages long and contains approximately forty-five impressionistic run-on sentences.
In 1922 such an account of a recent warācompare with David Jonesās strange, difficult WWI prose-poem "In Parenthesis," for exampleāwould be merely audacious, but in 1822, it was completely baffling; which is too bad, because for two hundred years the text has lingered in obscurity. (I have reason to believe Iām the only living humanā¦
From Hal's list on irresponsible history.
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