[BNP/E3, 114² – 59-60]

Letter written to Professor Jones, physical researcher, by William Smith, researched on the same subject.

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Dear Professor,

Having heard that you, in a paper which you propose to write upon that extraordinary phenomenon called magical metathesis, by which a man goes through roads at a greater speed than a motor can travel[1], and cycles through closed doors – having heard this – at least not this, but that |you were|[2] to write on this, you intended to use as an example a case of which I am the hero, and which (by the statements of the numerous witnesses) has the highest degree of credibility, I have the honour to write you this letter to give you, on this case,

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an unpleasant disillusion.

I was staying a week ago at the country house of a friend of mine {…}

              I can bolt

Conscience and intellect

              Revolt

I feel thy horror, the

              not home

              teel me thy name

Evil thou art, and over that clamour

Our aching heart

But what thy nearer naming {…} 

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That place where spirits burn in fire where Hell

Even weep the sins they were hard to commit

{…} in less words than a few,

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shyness, which I call timidity because it makes it appear less childish.

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This piece of furniture

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{…} like all folding tables, and folding stools, and folding things in general in that it had a complexity of leg-structure which was |*ventrally| appalling. There was space enough underneath the table, as space; in the terms of usefulness[3], it did not represent a very high quantity.

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With habit can a 1000 dread multiplications of the grim and vile grant of evilness † caried.  

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metathesis

metathesis

metathesis

metathesis

metathesis

metathesis

metathesis

metathesis

metathesis

metathesis

metathesis

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Where one man fails

A thousand can succeed.[4]

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For my part, I say nothing against magical metathesis in general, but only against this particular magical metathesis, of which I was the unfortunate hero.

[1] motor can travel^/-car\

[2] that |you were| ^/being\

[3] usefulness ^{/auxilableness\}

[4] Where one man fails ^/failed\

A thousand can ^{/may\ /(could)\} succeed.