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Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier (1915; click thru for free Google eBook)

Programming Note

Sincere apologies for the long absence, friends. First Paragraph is a one-human operation and that human has been crazy busy lately. Regular updates to return to this space by April 15. In the meantime, it’s crazy easy for you to submit a ¶ and for me to approve it, so keep things moving with your own favorite ¶s!

Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

CHAPTER ONE

THE ALASKA INTERIOR

April 27th, 1992

Greetings from Fairbanks! This is the last you shall hear from me Wayne.

Arrived here 2 days ago. It was very difficult to catch rides in the Yukon Territory. But I finally got here.

Please return all mail I receive to the sender. It might be a very long time before I return South. If this adventure proves fatal and you don’t ever hear from me again I want you to know you‘re a great man. I now walk into the wild. Alex. 

POSTCARD RECEIVED BY WAYNE WESTERBERG

IN CARTHAGE, SOUTH DAKOTA

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Moby Dick, the Arion Press edition | Typefaces: Goudy Modern, Leviathan

Herman Melville, Moby Dick (1851)

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Jane Austen, Emma (1815)