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Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)

CHAPTER LI
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Wherefore, that saying imputed to Alma, and which, by his very followers, is deemed the most hard to believe of all his instructions, and the most at variance with all preconceived notions of immortality, I Babbalanja, account the most reasonable of his doctrinal teachings.

It is this;--that at the last day, every man shall rise in the flesh." "Pray, Babbalanja, talk not of resurrections to a demi-god." "Then let me rehearse a story, my lord.

You will find it in the 'Very Merry Marvelings' of the Improvisitor Quiddi; and a quaint book it is.
Fugle-fi is its finis:--fugle-fi, fugle-fo, fugle-fogle-orum!" "That wild look in his eye again," murmured Yoomy.

"Proceed, Azzageddi," said Media.
"The philosopher Grando had a sovereign contempt for his carcass.
Often he picked a quarrel with it; and always was flying out in its disparagement.

'Out upon you, you beggarly body! you clog, drug, drag! You keep me from flying; I could get along better without you.


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