THE BOOK OF
GIANTS
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Chapter 1
aAfter almost everybody died in the Plague, the place called Europe started to get more interesting than it had been for quite a while.
2bThe Bubonites who hadn’t died in the Plague thought it might be nice to try some new ways of doing things,
3And what with all the general relief about not being dead like almost everybody else,
4aSome of them even thought it might be nice to have some fun for a change.
5bIt turned out, quite unexpectedly, that there were a lot more ways of having fun than there were of having no fun to speak of.
6Only, still being Christians, they decided they needed a cname for what they were about to do,
7dA name that sounded important and worthwhile,
8And not frivolous and esinful.
9A name like f“Rebirth” would have been perfect,
10But because not many them spoke gEnglish,
11Except the ones who lived in hEngland, of course,
12They wound up calling it the i“Renaissance” instead,
13Which means “Go for it!”
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