Essays
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Profiles
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Poetry
Journal of Dr. Beaurieux Witness to an execution by guillotine, June 28, 1905 After the blade dropped, and the eyelids twitched, the spasms tugging at the lips went calm, and when I called out to the head, “Languille!” the eyelids lifted up, this time, I …
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