miching mallecho

Have some snide Shelley to strt off the morning - the introductory note to his "Peter Bell the Third," a poem written in satire of Wordsworth.

"Dear Tom -- Allow me to request you to introduce Mr. Peter Bell to the respectable family of the Fudges; although he may fall short of those very considerable personages in the more active properties which characterize the Rat and the Apostate, I suspect that even you their historian will be forced to confess that he surpasses them in the more peculiarly legitimate qualification of intolerable dulnss.

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