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I've listened to Leonard Cohen lugubriate his erotic evasions, and to Van the Man rave on about the blues and Debussy, to Doc Cook, the Good Father of my college days, rhapsodize about Emerson's bare puddle vastations.

Most speedboarders wear helmets, knee and elbow pads, and occasionally all-in-one aerodynamic suits, to protect themselves.

The verbivorous author of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Carroll evinced a prodigious talent for merging two words and beheading parts of one or both.