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In any type of writing, there are three possible points of view: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, or me, you, and other. There are three periods of the English language’s history: Old, Middle, and Modern. And dramas traditionally have three parts: prot asis, epitasis, and catastrophe.

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Three Lives

Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein (1874-1946). Three Lives. 1909

The Gentle Lena

LENA was patient, gentle, sweet and german. She had been a servant for four years and had liked it very well. 1

Lena had been brought from Germany to Bridgepoint by a cousin and had been in the same place there for four years. 2

This place Lena had found very good. There was a pleasant, unexacting mistress and her children, and they all liked Lena very well. 3

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Time and Eternity

Emily Dickinson (1830-86). Complete Poems. 1924.

Part Four: Time and Eternity

CXXII

THREE weeks passed since I had seen her, Continue reading Time and Eternity

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Three Quatrains

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935). Collected Poems. 1921.

II. The Children of the Night
3. Three Quatrains

I

AS long as Fame's imperious music rings
Will poets mock it with crowned words august;
And haggard men will clamber to be kings
As long as Glory weighs itself in dust.

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