Hey Rub-a-dub-dub: A Book of the Mystery and Wonder and Terror of LifeDreiser, Theodore
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Hey Rub-a-dub-dub: A Book of the Mystery and Wonder and Terror of Life
Dreiser, Theodore
American essays -- 20th century
_Hauled about by varying groups of Descendant Sons and Daughters of
Free and Accepted Boy Scouts, Anti-Vivisectionists,
Anti-Vaccinationists, etc., all in attractive and unforgettable
raiment of cerise, purple, yellow and nile green, are the only
remaining specimens or images of now all but extinct Gamblers,
Saloon-Keepers, Financiers, Thieves, Vivisectionists,
Vaccinationists, Philosophers, Politicians, Magdalens and Predatory
Rich still in captivity or existence. It should be stated in
passing that all Liars, Thieves, Scoundrels, Lechers, Anarchists
and the like were finally exterminated during the all-memorable
Federated Presidency of Bonehead X, A. D. 3409-3427, just five
hundred years before. Saloons and all forms of illegal as well as
commercialized vice departed this earth some seven hundred years
before. The ladies of the Inner High Council of Descendant Sons and
Daughters of Ancient Thirty-second Degree Anti-Vivisectionists have
here (muzzled and chained) the only extant examples of a
Vivisectionist surgeon of the former cult of inhuman
experimentalists, captured in Greenland. The Federated Union of
Descendant Sons and Daughters of Ancient and Honorable
Vice-Crusaders of the World present in a drop-forged steel cage,
painted yellow, blue and green, the only living specimen of a
simon-pure Madam, recently captured in the outlying regions of
Borneo. In other portions of the field, caged and dressed to
represent now extinct types of Materialists, Scientists,
Philosophers, Chemists, Nietzscheans, Pragmatists, Stoics and so
forth, are one hundred volunteers of the East South African School
of Christian Histrionic Culture, freely giving their services for
this great occasion._
SHISHMASH HASH HASH
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