The Arctic Hedonist. (At Large And At Small).(arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson)

From: American Scholar | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: Philonoe | Copyright information

My father was an insomniac. He used to while away the small hours of the night with mental games, of which his favorite was called I Shook Hands with Shakespeare. He had shaken hands with the actress Cornelia Otis Skinner, who had in turn presumably shaken hands with her father, Otis Skinner. He had shaken hands with Edwin Booth ... and so on, down through Junius Brutus Booth, Edmund Kean, David Garrick, Thomas Betterton, Sir William D'Avenant, and Richard Burbage. Finally, as dawn...

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