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So this is (may we take it) Mitteleuropa:
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Mr Corles was in command of machine guns
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but when the time came to fire
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he merely lit a cigarette and walked away from his
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battery and seated himself in a field,
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So some subaltern gave the order to fire
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and Mr Corles did not suffer the extreme penalty
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because his family
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was a very good bourgeois family in Vienna
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and he was therefor sent to a mind sanatorium.
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Mr Fidascz
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explained to me
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the horrors of playing the fiddle while that ass Nataanovitch,
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or some other better known -ovitch
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whose name we must respect because of the
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law of libel,
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was conducting
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in particular the Mattias Passion, after requesting that
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the audience come in black clothes;
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And the Fraulein Doktor nearly wept over the Tyrol,
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being incapable of seeing that the century-old joke on Italia
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was now on somebody else
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though if they cd. sentimentalize over that lousy old
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bewhiskered sonvabitch François Giuseppe of whom nothing
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good is recorded—in fact with the most patient research—
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nothing good is recorded...... and so forth....
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this is Mitteleuropa
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and Tsievitz
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has explained to me the warmth of affections,
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the intramural, the almost intravaginal warmth of
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hebrew affections, in the family, and nearly everything else....
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pointing out that Mr Lewinesholme has suffered by deprivation
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of same and exposure to American snobbery ... “I am a product,”
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said the young lady, “of Mitteleuropa,”
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but she seemed to have been able to mobilize
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and the fine thing was that the family did not
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wire about papa’s death for fear of disturbing the concert
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which might seem to contradict the general indefinite wobble.
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It must be rather like some internal organ,
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some communal life of the pancreas.... sensitivity
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without direction ... this is ...
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Oh yes, there are nobles, still interested in polo
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said the whoring countess of course there were nobles.
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Mister Axon the usually so intelligent was
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after two lunches with Dortmund unable, in fact he was
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quite unable to play respectable chess and the younger
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Alexi after living with Murphy
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was observed to be gray in the gills
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through a presumed loss of vitality we have said that
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stupidity is contagious, the divorce of Potemkin
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was impeded by the death of his grandmother
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and a resurgence of family feeling. His
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wife now acts as his model and the Egeria
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has, let us say, married a realtor. Having resigned overt
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intention to remarry, the widow, once the rose,
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spends her time now plaguing her daughter, and
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Mr Elias said to me:
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“How do you get inspiration?
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“Now my friend Hall Caine told me he came on a case
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“a very sad case of a girl in the East End of London
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“and it gave him an i n s p i r a t i o n. The only
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“way I get inspiration is occasionally from a girl, I
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“mean sometimes sitting in a restaurant and
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looking at a pretty girl I
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“get an i-de-a, I-mean-a biz-nis i-de-a?”
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dixit sic felix Elias?
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The tale of the perfect schnorrer: a peautiful chewisch poy
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wit a vo-ice dot woult
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meldt dh heart offa schtone
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and wit a likeing for to make arht-voiks
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and ven dh oldt ladty wasn’t dhere any more
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and dey didn’t know why, tdhere ee woss in the
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oldt antique schop and nobodty knew how he got dhere
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and venn hiss brudder diet widout any bapers
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he vept all ofer dh garpet so much he
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had to have his clothes aftervards pressed
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and he orderet a magnifficent funeral
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and tden zent dh pill to dh vife.
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But when they have high cheek-bones
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they are supposed to be Mongol. Eljen! Eljen Hatvany!
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He had ideals and he said to the general at the conference,
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“I introduce to you the head of the bakers’ union.
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“I introduce to you the head of the brick-layers’ union..”
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“Comment! Vous êtes tombés si bas?”
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replied General Franchet de Whatshisname
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on the part of the french royalist party, showing thus
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the use of ideals to a jewish Hungarian baron
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with a library (naturally with a library)
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and a fine collection of paintings? “We find the land over-brained.”
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said the bojars or whatever the old savages call it
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as they hung their old huntsman friend to his chandelier
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in his dining hall after the usual feasting and flagons
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VIRTUSCH!! it must be one helluva country. Item:
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That there be made a fontego (a chamber)
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to lend money on cloth so that they cease not to
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labour for lack of money .. Item: that there be made a scavenzaria
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and it be furnished with cloth thus pledged
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to be sold a schavezo at a price as if wholesale
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plus only the proportion of the tax for the retail so that
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Mantua cloth being cheap as in countries circumjacent and that
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Brescians, Cremonesi, Parmenesi, Resanesi
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who now go to Verona where it is cheaper as also
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our own townsfolk go there, they wd. then come here or
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stay here to the augment of industry and increase in
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the retail tax and all of the other taxes.
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Item: for the increase of this art
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shd. be a man stationed in Venice ... to sell what we
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can’t sell here ... Item: a dye works ... that they can dye
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the pledged cloth ... and that finding here cloth well coloured
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... inficit umbras....
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the Romagnols wd. come here to Mantua, and the March folk
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who now go to Verona to buy ... all of which wd.
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be gain to this industry, bring more people to live here
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and be of great use to yr. taxes.
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Mantua 1401, una grida.
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When the stars fall from the olive
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Or with four points or with five
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Toward St John’s eve
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Came this day Madame ὔλη, Madame la Porte Parure
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Adorned with the Romancero,
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foot like a flowery branch. That
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Venice be luogo di contratto may we
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say the place where the deal is made
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and the profits
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most assuredly from the pocket
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of the last man who buys / exempt from customs
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be food stuffs and nothing else so exempted
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9 per cent in, and 9 out, for the upkeep of “The Dominant”
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and De Gama (Vasco) a great inconvenience in fact the
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worst news that there could be but:
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Can Portugal keep it up?
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omnes de partibus ultramarinis
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needing salt, made their peace with Venice
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“who commands sea, commands trade”
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let the rest provide for “The Dominant,” “Victoria?
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“Where ’ave I ’eard that nayme?”
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Undersell, overbuy, maintain defence of the sea route
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a.d. 1423 et cetera
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9% in and 9 out, no export of sand, alkali, rags.
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Quality. So that our goods please the buyer.
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Tell the Wazir that that stuff is ours only in name
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it is made by damned jews in exile, made by damned jews in
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Ragusa and sold with Venetian labels. Goods in
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Venetian bottoms
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no ship to be built out of Venice.
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Mocenigo. Fourteen twenty-three.
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Have a load-line, no heavy deck cargo. Tola, octroi and decime.
