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A short psalm of decadence
Two poetic and historically imperative excerpts from
The Souls of Black Folk
by W.E.B. Du Bois
Fic-tion >n. 1. a making up of imaginary happenings; feigning 2. anything made up or imagined, as a statement, story, etc. 3. a lie 4. something accepted as fact for the sake of convenience, although not necessarily true