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    The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor
    The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor
    The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor
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    The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor

    By Wallace Irwin

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJun 1, 2004
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      The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor - Wallace Irwin

      Project Gutenberg's The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor, by Wallace Irwin

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor

      Author: Wallace Irwin

      Release Date: March, 2004  [EBook #5332]

      Last Updated: January 26, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LOVE SONNETS ***

      Produced by David Schwan and David Widger

      THE LOVE SONNETS OF A CAR CONDUCTOR

      By Wallace Irwin

        Author of

        The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum

        The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Junior

        Etc.

        With a harmless and instructive Introduction

        by

        Wolfgang Copernicus Addleburger

        Professor of Literary Bi-Products

        University of Monte Carlo

      Paul Elder & Company

      San Francisco and New York

        Muse of my native land,

        am I inspir'd?

        —Keats.

      Copyright, 1908

      by Paul Elder and Company

      CONTENTS

      INTRODUCTION

      THE LOVE SONNETS OF A CAR CONDUCTOR

      PROLOGUE

      I

      II

      III

      IV

      V

      VI

      VII

      VIII

      IX

      X

      XI

      XII

      XIII

      XIV

      XV

      XVI

      XVII

      XVIII

      XIX

      XX

      XXI

      XXII

      EPILOGUE

      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.

      No traces of Slang may be found among mollusks, crustaceans or the lower invertebrates. Slang is not common to vertebrate fishes or to whales, seals,

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