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According to Lionel ("The Toy") Train ocC, chief promoter and engineer, ceremonies are set to take place, and because they will be held on the grounds of the "sovereign State of Lampoon," police cannot legally interfere...
...earliest, probably written when he was only 15,* Proust practices the mincing tones of flattery: "Madame, you are pretty, extremely pretty." He signed a note to one creature: "The most respectful servant of your Sovereign Indifference." He feigned passion, and strained for it, but could seldom find it. Later he was to admit that "I only know how to tell women I admire and love them when I feel neither one nor the other." Perhaps he remembered the letter he had written to a Creole courtesan, a friend of his great-uncle: "I should far rather make a slip with...
...promising. Just a few days before, on his first trip to Canada, a Chilean cattleman named José Barros had agreed to pay Hays Ltd., Canada's largest exporter of Holsteins to the south, a whopping $79,340 for 15 purebreds, including a $15,000 bull named Sonniwilk Sovereign...
...gobbledygook: "The only way to peace is a stony road which involves constant risk of war." Translated, this means: "Pledge allegiance to your nation, arm to the teeth, and be ready at all times to be led to the slaughter by your 'leaders' whenever diplomacy between sovereign states gets out of hand, as it does periodically...
...Chicago publicity man named James Mangan announced that he had founded a new "sovereign power . . . known as the nation of Celestial Space." He presented a fancy document to the Cook County Recorder, staking out a claim to "space in all directions . . . specifically exempting . . . every celestial body, whether star, planet, satellite or comet . . ." Then he debated selling chunks of space as big as the earth, for a dollar each...