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Tragic Timetable. Back home?it was now after midnight???Whitman stabbed his wife three times in the chest, apparently as she lay sleeping, and drew the bed sheet over her nude body. Then he returned to the note?partially typewritten, partially handwritten, partially printed?that was to be his valedictory. Included was a tragic timetable: "12:30 a.m.?Mother already dead. 3 o'clock?both dead." He hated his father "with a mortal passion," he wrote, and regretted that his mother had given "the best 25 years of her life to that man." Clearly, the erratic orbit...
Second Wayfarer: "And all the Yoshiwara-folk will be abed before midnight???if their roofs don't leak...
Morning, noon, night, midnight??? the stream of cranks in and out of newspaper offices is in perpetual motion. Occasionally, one of them succeeds in having a young cub sent out to hear his tale...
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