At twenty, Bach made a pilgrimage of more than two hundred miles, on foot, to hear Buxtehude play the organ. (153)
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Ship me somewheres east of Suez. (154)
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If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of little old ladies. (155)
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A person on business from Porlock. (156)
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I think each of my children are somehow from Porlock.

Aldonza Lorenzo. (157)
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Raskolnikov wrote some books once. (158)
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Very little happened in connection with any of them. In any
event that was long ago. (159)
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Jack London committed suicide. (160)
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Bruno Schulz was carrying home a loaf of bread when he was shot down in the street by the Gestapo. (161)
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Protagonist reading. Hearing them, up above. (162)
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My wife too.

Mussorgsky died raving mad from drink. (163)
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