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One is entitled to speculate on what outrageous proposal the narrator had made in Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, Vol. 2 Cities of the Plain ( translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff Modern Library, N.Y., 1934, Page 90 ) to cause the Duchess to say, Apart from your balls, can't I be of any use to you? There is a famous letter penned by Rupert Brooke to his friend, Edward Marsh, from somewhere near Fiji ( p. 463 of A Treasury of the World's Great Letters, Simon and Schuster, N.Y., 1940 ) in which he relates how he sends his native boy up a palm tree, where he cuts off a couple of vast nuts... ( macho victim not disclosed ).
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One is entitled to speculate outrageous proposal narrator made in Proust's Remembrance of things past Vol. 2 Cities of the Plain, to cause the duchess to say, apart from your balls, can't I be of any use to you? famous letter penned by Rupert Brooke to his friend Edward Marsh, from Fiji in which he relates how he sends his native boy up a palm tree, where he cuts off a couple of vast nuts...