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The Appointment
The Appointment in Samarra by W. Somerset Maugham (1933)
The speaker is Death: There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, Master, just now when I was in the marketplace I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when I
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Now they have beaten me, he thought. I am too old to club sharks to death. But I will try it as long as I have the oars and the short club and the tiller.
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It was dangerous, deadly, they said, for any man to go there.
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anthropomorphically.”
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