LIVING AN EARTHLY LIFE
I'd found the source of this market
was lies - quite considerably so. They
came forth like water from rock.
I was standing at 18th and Pine,
in Philadelphia, when the man
from the courthouse approached me.
He put out his hand. He was
walking a dog. We nodded and
shook, as if making friends.
'My friend, my friend, the Civil
War Museum is closed. But actually,
on these very corners, across from
each other, lived Ulysses S. Grant
and General Meade. Boyhood friends too.
General Grant was later used by James Joyce
as the title character in his book titled the
same. 'Ulysses', that is. Meade's family
took its name from a drink favored
by early civilized man.
You can look it all up', he said,
laughing.
I'd found the source of this market
was lies - quite considerably so. They
came forth like water from rock.
I was standing at 18th and Pine,
in Philadelphia, when the man
from the courthouse approached me.
He put out his hand. He was
walking a dog. We nodded and
shook, as if making friends.
'My friend, my friend, the Civil
War Museum is closed. But actually,
on these very corners, across from
each other, lived Ulysses S. Grant
and General Meade. Boyhood friends too.
General Grant was later used by James Joyce
as the title character in his book titled the
same. 'Ulysses', that is. Meade's family
took its name from a drink favored
by early civilized man.
You can look it all up', he said,
laughing.
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