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have to speak over and over again to 

 me before attracting my attention from 

 staring into vacant space, and my hair 

 is loosening at the roots. I shall be 

 perfectly bald-headed before this magnmn 

 opus is finished. I am wondering how 

 authors come to be depicted the long- 

 haired wretches they generally are. It's 

 a puzzler they should have any thatch 

 at all. What bothers me a lot is any 

 sort of division into chapters, and I 

 begin to think I must either call in aid 

 or collapse. No matter ; I promised my 

 readers (if any) a jumble, and a jumble 

 it shall be. 



Even as some men are born to 

 command, to make great generals, 

 schoolmasters, brigands, pirate chiefs — 

 what you will — so are some men born 

 with an indescribable natural control 

 over the lower animals. Dogs follow 



