526 "The Wife of His Youth" by Charles Chesnutt
The History of Literature
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The Virgil Pottery
The clay vessels that Romans cranked out the way we crank out plastic and glass bottles. It was olive oil to be hauled all over the Roman Empire. A worker who was drying out the clay saw that he could write on it when it was still wet before it hardened. And what did he write? He conjured up some lines of verse from memory and jotted it into the pot.
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