07 November 2012
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Lege. Lege. Aliquid haerebit.
(Read. Read. Something will stick.)
The Connecticut (or Hartford or Wicked) Wits were a group of late-18th-century poets who first attempted to write a distinctly American literature. THEY FAILED.
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