I mean, there's plenty more where
that came from. Like this dialogue between the Captain and his Imaginary Friend (yep) from June 1852:
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Scenes Beyond the Western Border
Southern Literary Messenger (June 1852): 413 |
The close of the above exchange, giving C's sense of his preferred audience, was selected to serve for the
epigraph to Scenes and Adventures in the Army:
I address not then, the shallow or hurried worldling; but the friendly one, who in the calm intervals from worldly cares, grants me the aid of a quiet and thoughtful,—and if it may be,—a poetic mood!
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