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Podcast: The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy
Episode: 🎧 642: What a Piece of Work I Am
Description: DedicationFor MadEpigraphsLet not the reader be scandalized by this gravity amid the frivolous; let him rather recall that there is a grandeur in all follies, an energy in all excess. — Charles Baudelaire, “The Painter of Modern Life” (translated by Jonathan Mayne)The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to seaIn a beautiful pea-green boat; . . .They sailed away, for a year and a day,To the land where the bong-tree grows; . . .And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,They danced by the light of the moon,The moon,The m...