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  1. Mark Dunn _ Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in

    His countenance, dear Ellakins, is no strain upon young female eyes!
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  2. Mark Dunn _ Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in

    I suggested, further, that the following might be sculpted: a large box filled with sixty moonshine jugs--piled high, toppling over, corks popping, liquor flowing. Disorder to match the clutter and chaos of our marvelous language. Words upon words, piled high, toppling over, thoughts popping, correspondence and conversation overflowing.
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  3. Mark Dunn _ Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in

    We must respect that silence and make our decisions and judgments based upon science and fact and simple old-fashioned common sense - a commodity absent for too long from those in governmental elevatia, where its employ would do us all much good.
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  4. Mark Dunn _ Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in

    For the present, it is easier for us to turn away. Our repulsion, you see, will not spur us to revolt until this plague moves much closer to home."
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  5. Mark Dunn _ ZOUNDS!: A Browser's

    All present life is but an interjection, An "Oh!" or "Ah!" of joy or misery Or a "Ha, ha!" or "Bah!"-a yawn, or "Pooh!" Of which perhaps the latter is most true. -LORD BYRON
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  6. Mark Dunn _ Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in

    {Slipped beneath the minnow Pea front door}NolloptonMonty No-way 6Insane woman named Ella:Retreat is what we want. Go away. Let we alone.Anonymess
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  7. Mark Dunn _ Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in

    Today we queried, questioned, and inquired. Promise me that come tomorrow, we will not stop asking why.
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  8. Mark Dunn _ Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in

    Instead of the calendrical terms Monday, Tuesday and so forth, we cheerfully offer the following surrogates. Use them freely and often, for their use honors us all. For Sunday, please use Sunshine. For Monday. pleasy use Monty. For Tuesday, please use Toes. For Wednesday, please use Wetty. For Thursday, please use Thurby. For Friday, please use Fribs. For Saturday, please use Satto-gatto.
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  9. Mark Dunn _ Ibid

    There is no one great man. Only millions of men and women in possession of tiny pieces of greatness, which when put together, when assembled in the aggregate make the whole. I am a piece of a very large jigsaw puzzle. One of the corner pieces. The one you go for first - important for a time, different from most of the others. But then, in the end, in the big picture, just one of many.
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  10. Mark Dunn _ Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in

    We appreciate your coming to us with a copy of your letter to your sister, but it was unnecessary. Your offense was known to us even before the letter's receipt by your sister. Effective as of September 15 the primary responsibility of our isle's new assistant chief postal inspector has been to scan all post for use of illegal letters of the alphabet, then to make nightly reports to the Council. A report has been put on file on your behalf, your official sentence to be forthwith in issuance.
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  11. Mark Dunn _ Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in

    The Council is wrong. Yet, observe that none of us will risk telling it so, for fear of the consequences.
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  12. Mark Dunn _ Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in

    U" is gone. I suppose you're aware. The 1st aeiouy to go. Up until now the other graphemes were not aeiouys. When the aeiouys start to go, Ella, writing to you turns exponentially more grueling. I will not throw in the towel, though. I trust that you won't either. I truly relish our partnership.
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