Heathen days, 1890-1936
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Heathen days, 1890-1936
（Maryland paperback bookshelf, . Mencken's autobiography ; v. 3）
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, c1943
Maryland pbk. bookshelf ed
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Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1943
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In the third volume of his autobiography, H.L. Mencken looks back on his life and declares it "very busy and excessively pleasant". He imparts the impressive education he recieved from Hoggie Unglebower, the best dog trainer in Christendom, and the survival techniques he employed at Baltimore Polytechnic, where he learned to protect his fingers from power tools and his character from the influence of algebra. Mencken also describes the club boxing matches he attended, watching as the combatants in this gentleman's sport genteelly broke both bones and the law. He recounts his voyage across the Atlantic that he, unlike Columbus, paid for himself. In Naples, he admired the garbage that seemed to have accumulated since Roman times. In Tunis, he searched for the ruins of Carthage. In the Holy Land, he looked for the ruins of Gomorrah, the Hollywood of antiquity, in hopes of finding evidence that the city's unparalleled reputation for wickedness was simply exaggerated.
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