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OUTLIER Word Stories · How I knew it

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“Christopher Marlowe had this unfinished epillion ‘Hero & Leander.’ As a child I thought the line was /as she went, would cheer up through the bills/ I imagined this aquatic superhero (fully kitted out: Cape, tights, undies on the outside) being so happy she could pay her bills.”

@gnawingly · Elizabethan England

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