Small Black Powder

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“By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

“I’m a prodigal son. The black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows.”
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“My little ‘bout-town gal has gone
‘Bout town with powder and blue dye
On her pale lids....”
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