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Four Minute Essays By Dr. Frank Crane: 101 total pages.

are you pulled? To what part of you is the cable-tow fastened-to your loins or to your forehead? FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS 155 Suppose it were possible to live after the head had been severed from the body; which part would you rather be, the head part or the meat part? What are you, anyhow: an animal, pes­tered with a mind; or a soul, prisoned in a body? Do you know that the gist of culture con­sists in transferring one's habitual amuse­ments from below to above the nose? 156 YESTERDAY I AM Yesterday. I am gone from you forever. I am the last of a long procession of days, streaming behind you, away from you, pouring into mist and obscurity, and at last into the ocean of oblivion. Each of us has his burden, of triumph, of defeat, of laughter, of bitterness; we bear our load from you into forgetfulness; yet as we go we each leave something in your subconsciousness. We fill your soul's cellar. I depart from you, yet I am ever with you. Once I was called Tomorrow, and was virgin pure; then I became your bride and FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS 157

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