THE BOOK OF DAMN
YANKEES
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE BOOK OF MANIFEST DESTINY
Poe proves that Yanks are sensitive
Chapter 69
Another Yank writer named aJoseph Conrad liked the sea almost as much as Melville,
2bBut his novels weren’t quite as long,
3Probably because English wasn’t his native language,
4Which maybe explains why he picked strange un-American sounding titles sometimes,
5Like c‘Lord Jim,’
6And d‘Nostromo,’
7And e‘The Nigger of the Narcissus.’
8Well,
9Maybe not all of his titles are un-American,
10fAnd besides, it was also Conrad who wrote a book called ‘Heart of Darkness,’
11Which must be pretty good,
12gBecause every Yank has heard of it.
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