Hl mencken autobiography of a flea

It's the Union General William Tecumseh Sherman and the Baltimore polemicist Henry Louis Mencken who provoke the most passionate curses from Confederate.

He is commonly a fierce patriot in whatever land he lives in, and he certainly was, at least in most cases, in Germany during the war, but his patriotism is.

Note for an Honest Autobiography.

Script of an unfinished, untitled novel, probably begun in Intending to exploit the current vogue of historical romance, Mencken set his story in Eliza.

90 years ago, America's wickedest pundit – whose views on Jews were 'mixed' at best – became its unlikeliest Zionist.

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The Autobiography of a Flea/Chapter 8

Bella continued to afford me the most delicious of pastures. Her young limbs never missed the crimson draughts which I imbibed, or felt, to any grave inconvenience, the tiny punctures which I was forced most reluctantly to make to obtain my living.

I determined, therefore, to remain with her although of late her conduct had become, to say the very least, somewhat questionable, and slightly irregular.

One thing I remarked for certain, and that was that she had lost all feelings of delicacy and maidenly reserve, and lived only now for the delights of sensual gratification.

Primary Document: H. L. Mencken's Commentary on the Scopes Trial.

I was soon satisfied that my young lady had lost nothing of the lesson she had received of her share in the conspiracy in course of preparation. How she played her part I now propose to relate.

It was not long before Bella found herself within the mansion of Mr.

Delmont, and, as luck would have it, or shall we say rather as that worthy man himself had expressly designed