EBOOK, THE LOVE SONNETS OF A CAR CONDUCTOR ***
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The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor
By
Wallace Irwin
Author of
The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum
The Rub?iy?t of Omar Khayy?m, Junior
Etc.
With a harmless and instructive Introduction
by
Wolfgang Copernicus Addleburger
Professor of Literary Bi-Products
University of Monte Carlo
Muse of my native land,
am I inspir'd?
- Keats.
Paul Elder & Company
San Francisco and New York
Mark what I say!
Attend me where I wheel!
- Troilus and Cressida.
Copyright, 1908
by Paul Elder and Company
Introduction
Science may conquer the stars, but it does nothing by jumps. As a
Scientist, as well as a philosopher, I am accustomed to reaching the
Transcendental by winding paths. It is characteristic of me that I
should have consented to preface this remarkable Sonnet Cycle only after
supreme deliberation, and that I should at last have determined to speak
in behalf of the Car Conductor for the following reasons:
1. As a Botanist I am fascinated by the phenomenon of Genius flourishing
from bud to flower, from flower to seed.
2. As a Psychologist I am anxious to establish once and for all, both by
plano-inductive and precoordinate systems of logic, the Status of Slang.
What position does Slang occupy in the thought of the world? Let us turn
to Zoology for an answer.
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