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...being sated with green chartreuse. Once asleep, I found myself again in the cemetery. A minatory wind scuttled through the silent tombstones, and Charonian shadows leapt and grimaced with unspeakable frenzy. What was most unusual for a dream was that my nose was active, wrinkling in disgust at the fetor of rotten grass and the ichor of freshly overturned earth. This time the enshrouded figure spoke to me in hollow tones: "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn." I woke up screaming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Dream Lurker | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

...told; thousands of men trained to a certain trade suddenly thrown on the mercy of the country. No handicraft during the period of the industrial Revolution was ever more thoroughly put out of business by the introduction of machinery than the trade of there men will be fetor the prohibition enactment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NATIONAL INDIGNATION | 6/16/1919 | See Source »

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