Exact Height Unknown

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    The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us; to realize all that we know; in the high refinement of modern life, in arts, in sciences, in books, in men, to exact good faith, reality, and a purpose; and first, last, midst, and without end, to honor every truth by use.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    The Woodrovian style, at the height of the Wilson hallucination, was much praised by cornfed connoisseurs.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    The unknown always seems unbelievable, Lucas.
    Harry Essex (b. 1910)