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Alfred · A · Knopf · Publisher
Spider Boy
a scenario for a moving picture
by
Carl Van Vechten
1928
New York · Alfred · A · Knopf · London
For
Blanche Knopf
with
Pansies and Kinkajous
and Love
"Not seldom to be famous, is to be widely known for what you are not."
In these same streets you shall wander,
and in the same purlieux you shall roam,
and in the same house you shall grow grey. . . .
There is no ship to take you to other lands, there is no road,
You have so shattered your life here, in this small corner,
that in all the world you have ruined it."
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