I had a professor...who taught the introduction to tactical engineering course. He said he never bothered changing his tests from term to term to prevent cheating, because while the questions were always the same, the answers changed. I'd thought he was joking. --Miles Vorkosigan in Memory, by Lois McMaster Bujold

 

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. --Ursula K. LeGuin, "Introduction," The Left Hand of Darkness

 

Some day soon we'll stop to ponder What on earth's this spell we're under? We made the grade, and still we wonder Who the hell we are. --Styx

The Reserve Desk

 

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Holdings

Edgar Allen Poe: poems Fairyland, Alone, Sonnet--to Science and The Raven.

Herman Melville: poems The Conflict of Convictions, A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight, The House-Top, The Swamp Angel, Magnanimity Baffled and The Martyr.

Sarah Piatt: poems The Palace Burner, After Her First Party, The Fancy Ball, A Pique at Parting, Her Word of Reproach and Her Blindness in Grief.

 

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Last modified: 08/8/09

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