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The Certain Hour (Dizain des Poëtes)

Chapter VI · Chapter 6

Chapter 6 of The Certain Hour (Dizain des Poëtes) is here in full — 184 sentences across 37 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

By James Branch Cabell • Curated US English Learning Edition

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He frowned.

Here was an arid forenoon as imagination went.

A seasoned plagiarist by this, he opened a book which lay upon the table among several others and duly found the chapter entitled _Of the Cannibals_.

"So, so!" he said aloud.

"'It is a nation,' would I answer Plato, 'that has no kind of traffic, no knowledge of letters----'" And with that he sat about reshaping Montaigne's conceptions of Utopia into verse.

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The Certain Hour (Dizain des Poëtes)

Chapter VI · Chapter 6

Chapter 6 of The Certain Hour (Dizain des Poëtes) is here in full — 184 sentences across 37 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/36 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1

He frowned.

Line 2

Here was an arid forenoon as imagination went.

Line 3

A seasoned plagiarist by this, he opened a book which lay upon the table among several others and duly found the chapter entitled _Of the Cannibals_.

Line 4

"So, so!" he said aloud.

Line 5

"'It is a nation,' would I answer Plato, 'that has no kind of traffic, no knowledge of letters----'" And with that he sat about reshaping Montaigne's conceptions of Utopia into verse.

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A

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about

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From this reading "'It is a nation,' would I answer Plato, 'that has no kind of traffic, no knowledge of letters----'" And with that he sat about reshaping Montaigne's conceptions of Utopia into verse.

aloud

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among

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an

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and

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answer

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arid

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as

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book

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by

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Cannibals

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chapter

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conceptions

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duly

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entitled

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forenoon

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found

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frowned

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has

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He

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Here

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I

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imagination

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into

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is

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It

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kind

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knowledge

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lay

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letters

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Montaigne's

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nation

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no

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Of

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opened

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others

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plagiarist

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Plato

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reshaping

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From this reading "'It is a nation,' would I answer Plato, 'that has no kind of traffic, no knowledge of letters----'" And with that he sat about reshaping Montaigne's conceptions of Utopia into verse.

said

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sat

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From this reading "'It is a nation,' would I answer Plato, 'that has no kind of traffic, no knowledge of letters----'" And with that he sat about reshaping Montaigne's conceptions of Utopia into verse.

seasoned

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several

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So

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table

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that

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the

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this

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traffic

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upon

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Utopia

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verse

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was

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went

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which

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with

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would

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From this reading "'It is a nation,' would I answer Plato, 'that has no kind of traffic, no knowledge of letters----'" And with that he sat about reshaping Montaigne's conceptions of Utopia into verse.

Chapter 6 of The Certain Hour (Dizain des Poëtes) by James Branch Cabell holds 184 sentences, grouped into 37 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.

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Chapter 6 holds 184 sentences of The Certain Hour (Dizain des Poëtes), unabridged, divided into 37 reading sections.

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