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Human Editions. The hero of Epitaph is a ghost named Braz Cubas, and the book is written in the form of his memoirs. He begins, as a ghost should, with his own funeral. Only eleven people show up, but he receives a handsome eulogy. Braz observes to himself that the government bonds he willed the speaker have undoubtedly oiled his tongue. How truly famous he might have been, he reflects, if he had ever completed his great cure-all-the Braz Cubas "anti-melancholy" plaster-to relieve the despondency of mankind...
...Braz plays back the record of his life, it becomes a melody of might-have-beens. Wellborn and well-to-do, he is fleeced at 17 by a well-built gold digger: "Marcella loved me for 15 months and eleven contos ($5,500); nothing less." Nonetheless, he graduates from college "with complete faith in dark eyes and written constitutions." He becomes engaged to Virgilia, a girl with a "mouth fresh as dawn and insatiable as death," but she jilts him for a politician. He survives the experience, and uses it to sharpen the Braz Cubas philosophy of life, also known...
...Parker House is going to be. You all know what a success our dance at the P. H. was and this amounts to the same thing. Every Junior who got paid last Monday should attend in reciprocity for the way in which the Middies supported our event. Tickets? Braz Pryor and Piggety Sigety in Co. 4 and Chase...
Spotlighting the weekend will be the Regimental Dance at the Parker House. Tickets are still on sale. At the door the ante will be raised to $3, so it seems to coincide with principles of good business to make your purchase now. Gene Speer and Braz Pryer are handling tickets for Co, 4, while Chick Henn and Bill Cousens will sell for Co. 3. Ruby Newman and his society orchestra will play. (Just what society Ruby means is hard to figure...
...course the Hayride and Picnic will highlight the coming weekend. So far, about 1520 people will be aboard Don Brown's hay-carriers as they head for Norumbega. The trip, Braz Pryor claims, will be inspiring because of its patriotic flavor--no gasoline, no rubber, no canned goods--and if Cowie has its way, no horses. Oh well, I'd sooner oat 'em than ride 'em. All itinerary of the route--both to the Park and to the wagons will be available upon request. Please see Brother Jaffa. The first hayburner will start on the historic journey...