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a Less'on in 19th Century Life & It's Livers
a section severed by
crosscut saw
in thee butchery of
lesser ani
mals
like
wee, in an attempt to be
new they say they said there
was a 'suicide craze' in the 1850's that
nearly
wiped out a
generation [of a few lives, so
muchless the worse for wear].....
Aye!I can imagine
a league of apparitions
causi
ng such a thing to be all but
unbelieving but troo in a truest sense
of any randumbly chosen word
in yOur
little red book of prime definition (secondary to
am arbiter's abrogation.
~ Hey, look ... quit fuckin'a'round whilst I'm bustin
my bloody blessid hump
trying
t'teach
you
some
thing ~
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Published 21st Dec 2014
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22nd Dec 2014 00:00am
there's a short story I read and
I can't remember who it's by,
I should google it, it may be Robert
Louis Stevenson, but I'm doubtful...
anyway, it was around his time and
it was called The Suicide Club,
and for some reason you've reminded
me of it...I just thought I'd mention it..!
I can't remember who it's by,
I should google it, it may be Robert
Louis Stevenson, but I'm doubtful...
anyway, it was around his time and
it was called The Suicide Club,
and for some reason you've reminded
me of it...I just thought I'd mention it..!
22nd Dec 2014 1:55am
The Suicide Club is a collection of three 19th century detective fiction short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson that combine to form a single narrative. First published in the London Magazine in 1878, they were collected and republished in the first volume of the New Arabian Nights.
The trilogy introduces the characters of Prince Florizel of Bohemia and his sidekick Colonel Geraldine. In this cycle they infiltrate a secret society of people intent on losing their lives.
It has been described as: "The Prince’s investigation of the macabre club and its criminally inclined president makes for one of Stevenson’s most exciting and suspenseful tales."[1]
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I was just reading about Stevenson in a chapter of "Doing Nothing...A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, & Bums..." It did not mention this set of stories, but the 'suicide craze' was in an earlier chapter on Melville, Hawthorne, Thoreau......I've always meant to read some of RLS's lesser known stuff....thanks for the mention.
The trilogy introduces the characters of Prince Florizel of Bohemia and his sidekick Colonel Geraldine. In this cycle they infiltrate a secret society of people intent on losing their lives.
It has been described as: "The Prince’s investigation of the macabre club and its criminally inclined president makes for one of Stevenson’s most exciting and suspenseful tales."[1]
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I was just reading about Stevenson in a chapter of "Doing Nothing...A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, & Bums..." It did not mention this set of stories, but the 'suicide craze' was in an earlier chapter on Melville, Hawthorne, Thoreau......I've always meant to read some of RLS's lesser known stuff....thanks for the mention.
22nd Dec 2014 12:36pm
That sounds awesome. And as well, you are such an interesting thinker/writer.
