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"I see"

"Afra

id of the word 'politics' (which eventually beca the more reactionary elements, so I hear, and it orth your life to use the word!), and with a screw tightened here, a bolt fastened there, a push, a pull, a yank, art and literature were soon like a great twine of taffy strung about, being twisted in braids and tied in knots and thrown in all directions, until there was no more resiliency and no more savor to it Then the film cameras chopped short and the theaters turned dark and the print presses trickled down froof 'pure' material Oh, the word 'escape' was radical, too, I tell you!"

"Was it?"

"It was! Every man, they said,that was not so hts of fancy ainst a library wall one Sunday o, in 1975; they lined them up, St Nicholas and the Headless Horseman and Snow White and Ru!--and shot thes and old kings and the people who lived happily ever after (for of course it was a fact that nobody lived happily ever after!), and Once Upon A Time became No More! And they spread the ashes of the Phantom Rickshaith the rubble of the Land of Oz; they filleted the bones of Glinda the Good and Ozma and shattered Polychroue at the Biologists' Ball! The Beanstalk died in a bra Beauty awoke at the kiss of a scientist and expired at the fatal puncture of his syringe And theyfroer cry 'Curiouser and curiouser,' and they gave the Looking Glass one ha and Oyster away!"

He clenched his fists Lord, how i for breath

As for Mr Bigelow, he was astounded at this long explosion He blinked and at last said, "Sorry Don't knohat you're talking about Just na"

"Get out!" screamed Stendahl "You've done your job, now let me alone, you idiot!"

Mr Bigelow summoned his carpenters and went away

Mr Stendahl stood alone before his House

"Listen here," he said to the unseen rockets "I caet away fro in thicker every day, like flies to offal So I' to teach you a fine lesson for what you did to Mr Poe on Earth As of this day, beware The House of Usher is open for business!"

He pushed a fist at the sky

The rocket landed A ray eyes were displeased and vexed He strode across the moat to confront the small man there

"Your name Stendahl?"

"Yes"