We got our new rifled muskets this morning. They are mostly old muskets, many of them used, altered from flint-lock to percussion ...... but the power of the gun was fully as great as represented. The ball at one-fourth mile passed through the largest rails; at one-half mile almost the same.... I think it an excellent arm.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Before me you are a slug in the sun. You are privy to a great becoming and you recognize nothing. You are an ant in the afterbirth.... It is in your nature to do one thing correctly: tremble.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Adrift dissolving, bound for death; Though lumpish thou, a lumbering one--... A lumbering lubbard loitering slow, Impingers rue thee and go down, Sounding thy precipice below, Nor stir the slimy slug that sprawls Along thy dead indifference of walls.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »