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Excerpt from Salmagundi, Vol. 2
In such a situation, my good Asem, it can not be expected that I should be able so wholly to abstract myself from my own feelings, as to give thee a full and systematic account of the singular people among whom my disas trous lot has been cast. I can only find leisure from my own individual sorrows to entertain thee occasionally with some of the most prom inent features of their character; and now and then a solitary picture Of their most pre posterous eccentricities.
I have before Observed that among the dis tinguishing characteristics of the people of this logocracy is their invincible love of talk ing, and that I could compare the nation to nothing but a mighty windmill. Thou art doubtless at a loss to conceive how this mill is supplied with grist or, in other words, how it is possible to furnish subjects to supply the perpetual motion of so many tongues.
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