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A user with 3,323 edits. Account created on 11 May 2012.
21 September 2024
- 11:5511:55, 21 September 2024 diff hist +18 The Heart Of Kentucky No edit summary current
- 11:5411:54, 21 September 2024 diff hist +382 The Heart Of Kentucky No edit summary
- 11:3111:31, 21 September 2024 diff hist +309 The Heart Of Kentucky No edit summary
- 11:2611:26, 21 September 2024 diff hist +194 N The Heart Of Kentucky Created page with "{{header | title = The Heart Of Kentucky | author = Hannah Daviess Pittman | translator = | section = | previous = | next = | year = 1908 | notes = }}"
- 11:2511:25, 21 September 2024 diff hist +338 N Author:Hannah Daviess Pittman Created page with "{{author | firstname = Hannah Daviess | lastname = Pittman | last_initial = Pi | birthyear = 1840 | deathyear = 1919 | description = }} ==Works== The Belle of the Bluegrass Country: Studies in black and white The Heart Of Kentucky Go Forth and Find Get Married, Young Men The Heart of a Doll" current
- 11:2311:23, 21 September 2024 diff hist +194 N Hannah Daviess Pittman Created page with "{{header | title = The Heart Of Kentucky | author = Hannah Daviess Pittman | translator = | section = | previous = | next = | year = 1908 | notes = }}" current
1 June 2024
- 13:0713:07, 1 June 2024 diff hist +20,805 N Broken Necks/Dog Eat Dog Created page with "{{header | title = ../ | author = Ben Hecht | translator = | section = Dog Eat Dog | previous = | next = | notes = }} We were in a fine philosophical mood, my friend and I, and we walked in the avenue with portentous and sardonic steps. He with his shoulders lifted and his apish head wagging slowly from side to side. I with the proper Mona Lisa crook to my lips. Thus men walk when, as inviolable gods, they debate the puerilities a..." current
28 May 2024
- 13:0813:08, 28 May 2024 diff hist +19,850 N Broken Necks/Decay Created page with "{{header | title = ../ | author = Ben Hecht | translator = | section = Decay | previous = | next = | notes = }} Here in this street the half-dead begin to give forth an odor. The rows of sagging little houses are like the teeth in an old man’s mouth. From them arise the exhalations of stagnant wood, of putrescent stairways, of bodies from which the sweats of lust have never been washed, of ulcerous shadows and soft, bubbling all..." current
24 April 2024
- 13:5513:55, 24 April 2024 diff hist +5,764 N Broken Necks/Mishkin's ldealist Created page with "{{header | title = ../ | author = Ben Hecht | translator = | section = Mishkin's ldealist | previous = | next = | notes = }} "He runs the elevator in the building on the West Side where I work sometimes," said my Falstaffian friend, Mr. Feodor Mishkin, "and if you want I will take you and see him." "I am now an editor, Feodor, and am finished interviewing elevator men." "Ha, you are finished with a lot of things, if you want me t..." current
20 April 2024
- 12:4412:44, 20 April 2024 diff hist +4,492 N Broken Necks/Melancholia Preceding Seduction Created page with "{{header | title = ../ | author = Ben Hecht | translator = | section = Melancholia Preceding Seduction | previous = | next = | notes = }} "I wonder whether the pleasure of confessing to this creature my actual opinions of her is a sufficient recompense for the loss of her favors which would result. It is always curiously satisfying to disillusion a woman concerning herself. "Yet I find a certain exhilaration in pretending to be de..." current
- 12:4012:40, 20 April 2024 diff hist +1 Broken Necks/Fragments No edit summary current
- 12:3912:39, 20 April 2024 diff hist +8,588 N Broken Necks/Fragments Created page with "{{header | title = ../ | author = Ben Hecht | translator = | section = Fragments | previous = | next = | notes = }} The curious and monotonous mystery of the city les in my thought like forgotten music. A man walking here. A man walking there. A horse standing at a curbstone with his head hanging. The oval-tinted face of a woman peering out of a taxicab window as it rushes by. These things multiplied a million times . . . And..."
- 12:2812:28, 20 April 2024 diff hist +7,007 N Broken Necks/Depths Created page with "{{header | title = ../ | author = Ben Hecht | translator = | section = Depths | previous = | next = | notes = }} Crowds began to come out of the buildings. They came in streams and broad waves, breaking in a black sweep over the pavements and spreading into a thick, long mass that moved forward. The glassy lights cut the twilight drizzle with their yellow fire. The tumult grew until up and down the street an unceasing din sounded..." current
- 10:4210:42, 20 April 2024 diff hist −14 Broken Necks/Shanghaied No edit summary current
- 10:3610:36, 20 April 2024 diff hist +25,267 N Broken Necks/Shanghaied Created page with "{{header | title = ../ | author = Ben Hecht | translator = | section = Shanghaied | previous = | next = | notes = }} Shanghaied I It was on this park bench that he had sat a summer night five years ago and with all the shrewdness and prophecy at his command decided that life without Helen would be a senseless, a miserable, and an unlovely thing. He sat now and looked at the elaborate mystery of trees in the night, and at the l..."
- 09:2909:29, 20 April 2024 diff hist +8,487 N Broken Necks/Gratitude Created page with "{{header | title = ../ | author = Ben Hecht | translator = | section = Gratitude | previous = | next = | notes = }} The avenue bubbled brightly under the grey rain. The afternoon crowd had melted from the sidewalk, washed into hallways and under awnings by the downpour. It began to look like evening. A refreshing gloom settled over the street. The wind leaped out of alley courts and byways and raced over the pavement, accompa..." current
- 08:4508:45, 20 April 2024 diff hist +22,678 N Broken Necks/The Movie Maniac Created page with "{{header | title = ../ | author = Ben Hecht | translator = | section = The Movie Maniac | previous = | next = | notes = }} In the beginning, Wilbur Omar Brown was a thin, saccharine gentleman whose words and deeds on remote occasions almost shed the stamp of asininity which seemed to be inherently theirs. He would, in the midst of his usual babbling, reveal a sudden shrewdness, a cunning, a knowledge perhaps of the population of B..." current
17 April 2024
- 11:3511:35, 17 April 2024 diff hist +16,419 N Broken Necks/Nocturne Created page with "{{header | title = ../ | author = Ben Hecht | translator = | section = Nocturne | previous = | next = | notes = }} It is easy to think in the streets at night. So I sometimes walk about the city long after the fat world has gone to sleep. I have, like a great many other people whom I do not know, a curious lack of emotion. This thing is called restlessness. In the streets at night my unrest becomes a mild and gentle sorrow, and giv..." current
- 11:1311:13, 17 April 2024 diff hist +12,163 N Broken Necks/The Bomb Thrower Created page with "{{header | title = ../ | author = Ben Hecht | translator = | section = The Bomb Thrower | previous = | next = | notes = }} Men and women swathed in streets and buildings; factories, avenues, houses and traffic winding them mummy fashion. He stood pressed against the wall of a skyscraper. Hatless, unshaven, thin-lipped and with the eyes of a frightened girl, he stood watching the people in the streets. Their movement on the sidewalk in front of him was li..." current
9 April 2024
- 13:5413:54, 9 April 2024 diff hist +8,430 Broken Necks/Caricature No edit summary
- 13:4113:41, 9 April 2024 diff hist +5,155 Broken Necks/Caricature No edit summary
- 13:2913:29, 9 April 2024 diff hist +3,696 Broken Necks/Caricature No edit summary
- 13:1713:17, 9 April 2024 diff hist +6,420 N Broken Necks/Caricature Created page with "{{header | title = ../ | author = Ben Hecht | translator = | section = Caricature | previous = | next = | notes = }} I The first thing that I remember noticing about him was that he was an elbow-steerer. This is nothing conclusive against a man. I have known elbow-steerers of excellent character, men who ripened with acquaintance into arresting and piquant companions. But always an elbow-steerer is to be accepted gingerly, with..."
8 April 2024
- 13:1613:16, 8 April 2024 diff hist +5,364 Broken Necks/Jazz No edit summary current
- 13:0813:08, 8 April 2024 diff hist +1,189 Broken Necks/Jazz No edit summary
- 12:5912:59, 8 April 2024 diff hist +6,954 Broken Necks/Jazz No edit summary
- 12:4012:40, 8 April 2024 diff hist +8,822 N Broken Necks/Jazz Created page with "{{header | title = ../ | author = Ben Hecht | translator = | section = Jazz | previous = | next = | notes = }} Jazz I In the fourth year of her married life Hazel Wombat experienced a desire to be free. She was married to an acute psychologist who specialized in primitive cultures. The fellow's name was Hubert Wombat, and he earned his bread by devoting three hours of each day, barring Sundays and Saturdays, to the enlighteni..."
22 December 2023
- 12:3312:33, 22 December 2023 diff hist +4,547 Broken Necks/Infatuation No edit summary current
- 12:2712:27, 22 December 2023 diff hist +6,426 Broken Necks/Infatuation No edit summary
- 12:2312:23, 22 December 2023 diff hist +2,953 Broken Necks/Infatuation No edit summary
- 12:1412:14, 22 December 2023 diff hist +5,916 N Broken Necks/Infatuation Created page with "{{header | title = ../ | author = Ben Hecht | translator = | section = Infatuation | previous = | next = | notes = }} I The dolorous night peered Madonna-like into the open windows of the café. At the little round tables, their arms resting on the black lacquered tops, their fingers clinging forgetfully to the stems of glasses, sat groups of idle celebrants. The wail of the café orchestra lost itself in the night noises that d..."
- 12:0612:06, 22 December 2023 diff hist +1,921 Broken Necks/The Man with One Wife No edit summary current
- 12:0212:02, 22 December 2023 diff hist +6,986 Broken Necks/The Man with One Wife No edit summary
- 11:4611:46, 22 December 2023 diff hist +11,290 N Broken Necks/The Man with One Wife Created page with "{{header | title = ../ | author = Ben Hecht | translator = | section = The Man with One Wife | previous = | next = | notes = }} I Moments come into every man’s life when the consciousness of sin penetrates his sophistication and causes him to suffer. Hardened though he be, cynical of the moral standards of his fellow-men, into the innermost solitude of his being the nausea of guilt still manages to creep. And then, for the mom..."
9 December 2023
- 14:2014:20, 9 December 2023 diff hist +5,828 N Broken Necks/Life Created page with "{{header | title = ../ | author = Ben Hecht | translator = | section = Life | previous = | next = | notes = }} The sun was shining in the dirty street. Old women with shapeless bodies waddled along on their way to market. Bearded old men who looked like the fathers of Jerusalem walked flat-footed, nodding back and forth. "The tread of the processional surviving in Halsted street?" thought Moisse, the young dramatist, who was mov..." current
6 December 2023
- 11:3111:31, 6 December 2023 diff hist +6,588 N Broken Necks/My Last Park Bench Created page with "{{header | title = ../ | author = Ben Hecht | translator = | section = My Last Park Bench | previous = | next = | notes = }} There is always one drama in people’s heads. They are older than they were and this fact is like a cello accompaniment to the inner and outer noises of the day. On a leisurly spring afternoon I find it difficult to avoid turning into the boulevard. And once in this wide avenue a species of perfunctory gay..." current
- 11:1011:10, 6 December 2023 diff hist +6,417 N Broken Necks/The Imposter Created page with "{{header | title = ../ | author = Ben Hecht | translator = | section = The Imposter | previous = | next = | notes = }} The soft, crackle of the rain surrounded by umbrella. It is true. I now carry an umbrella. I find an increasing tendency when writing of myself to tell pleasant lies. And unless I watch closely the words I set down, the characteristics I describe or to which I confess pertain to a figure ten years younger than myse..." current
2 December 2023
- 13:0213:02, 2 December 2023 diff hist +4,781 N Broken Necks/Lenin and Wilson Talk Their New Language on Doorstep of Valhalla Created page with "{{header | title = ../ | author = Ben Hecht | translator = | section = Lenin and Wilson Talk Their New Language on Doorstep of Valhalla | previous = | next = | notes = }} The New Ones sit on the doorstep of Valhalla. After their deaths the New Ones make a long trip. And they rest for a time on the doorstep before entering Valhalla. There sits a man with a short beard. He stares calmly out of the sky. Another man with along face..." current
- 13:0213:02, 2 December 2023 diff hist +43 Broken Necks No edit summary current
20 November 2023
- 10:0610:06, 20 November 2023 diff hist +8,865 Broken Necks/The Policewoman’s Daughter No edit summary current
- 09:5909:59, 20 November 2023 diff hist +9,254 N Broken Necks/The Policewoman’s Daughter Created page with "{{header | title = ../ | author = Ben Hecht | translator = | section = The Policewoman’s Daughter | previous = | next = | notes = }} I It was not like Agatha to do this sort of thing. If you had told her mother that Agatha was waiting alone in a dismal parlor of a more or less sinister hotel for a man whom she had been forbidden to see at all, she, the mother, would have swooned. And Mrs. Orman was not a swooning woman. She wa..."
18 November 2023
- 12:4612:46, 18 November 2023 diff hist +11,858 N Broken Necks/Black Umbrellas Created page with "{{header | title = ../ | author = Ben Hecht | translator = | section = Black Umbrellas | previous = | next = | notes = }} Little people hurry along in the dark street, their heads tucked away under black umbrellas that float jerkily like expiring balloons. Over them are the great buildings and the rain. The day is darkened and the city is without faces. A symmetrical stream of little black arcs stretches from the distance to fore..." current
- 12:3712:37, 18 November 2023 diff hist +5,690 N Broken Necks/The Philosopher’s Benefit Created page with "{{header | title = ../ | author = Ben Hecht | translator = | section = The Philosopher’s Benefit | previous = | next = | notes = }} "Have you anything especially important to do next Saturday night?" inquired Feodor Mishkin. The journalist's usually choleric voice was weary and his huge body sagged with the heat. "Important, Mishkin? It all depends on how you use the adjective. I have long ago stopped doing important things." "..."
- 12:2712:27, 18 November 2023 diff hist +19,268 N Broken Necks/The Yellow Goat Created page with "{{header | title = ../ | author = Ben Hecht | translator = | section = The Yellow Goat | previous = | next = | notes = }} The grave, melodious shout of rain filled the night. The streets had become like dark and attenuated pools. The rain falling illuminated the hidden faces of the buildings and the air was silvered with whirling lines. Through the sparkle and fume of the rain-colored night the lights of the café signs burned lik..." current
7 November 2023
- 10:1210:12, 7 November 2023 diff hist +54 Author:Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones →Novellas and short stories from magazines
10 October 2023
- 10:3710:37, 10 October 2023 diff hist +164 N Talk:Weird Tales/Volume 8/Issue 3/The Tower Ghost Created page with "{{textinfo | edition = | source = https://archive.org/details/the-tower-ghost | contributors = | progress = | notes = | proofreaders = }}" current
- 10:3610:36, 10 October 2023 diff hist +27,338 N Weird Tales/Volume 8/Issue 3/The Tower Ghost Created page with "{{header | title = ../../../ | author = E. Phillips Oppenheim | translator = | section = The Tower Ghost | previous = | next = | notes = }} I have written the title of this, my true story, and my eyes have wandered for a moment to the mirror which hangs almost directly in front of me. Strange that I should find myself smiling when but a short while ago I had sat down to my task so full of seriousness and deliberation. Yet so it is..." current
9 October 2023
- 10:1210:12, 9 October 2023 diff hist +30 Author:Frances Ormond Jones Gaither No edit summary
- 10:1210:12, 9 October 2023 diff hist −8 Author:Frances Ormond Jones Gaither →Short stories Tag: Manual revert
- 10:1110:11, 9 October 2023 diff hist +8 Author:Frances Ormond Jones Gaither →Works