To Hell and Back: My Trip to South America (Classic Reprint)
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Author(s)Golightly Morrill
PublisherForgotten Books
ISBN / ASIN133115863X
ISBN-139781331158639
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Excerpt from To Hell and Back: My Trip to South America
Hell has been glowingly described as a popular and populous place and since I had so often been told to go there I bought a ticket for South America.
Chicago was our first stop. The city divides honor with bean-eating Boston as a windy burg, puffing itself up with pride over what it should be most ashamed.
The herd of humanity rushes here like cattle to Armour's slaughter house, to become food for jails, hospitals, poorhouses, asylums and cemeteries.
Shelley said Hell was a city very much like London, but then he never saw Chicago. From what I saw and heard, "If Christ came to Chicago" he must have left on the next train.
Washington
WASHINGTON is a city of magnificent distances and liars. The first thing I saw at the station was a fountain statue erected by a K. C. un-American society with government funds to the mythical discoverer of America, Christopher Columbus, and I remembered how the Greeks builded monuments in memory of their myths.
Since the red lights have been extinguished there isn't much to see here except the Monument, from which the black stone sent from Rome was taken and thrown into the Potomac with a big splash; the White House where the mint beds lie scentless and dead; the Library, where I asked for my book and the man who had a remarkable memory for facts, said as he handed it to me, "Here it is, just as good as new - nobody has asked for it since you did ten years ago."
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Hell has been glowingly described as a popular and populous place and since I had so often been told to go there I bought a ticket for South America.
Chicago was our first stop. The city divides honor with bean-eating Boston as a windy burg, puffing itself up with pride over what it should be most ashamed.
The herd of humanity rushes here like cattle to Armour's slaughter house, to become food for jails, hospitals, poorhouses, asylums and cemeteries.
Shelley said Hell was a city very much like London, but then he never saw Chicago. From what I saw and heard, "If Christ came to Chicago" he must have left on the next train.
Washington
WASHINGTON is a city of magnificent distances and liars. The first thing I saw at the station was a fountain statue erected by a K. C. un-American society with government funds to the mythical discoverer of America, Christopher Columbus, and I remembered how the Greeks builded monuments in memory of their myths.
Since the red lights have been extinguished there isn't much to see here except the Monument, from which the black stone sent from Rome was taken and thrown into the Potomac with a big splash; the White House where the mint beds lie scentless and dead; the Library, where I asked for my book and the man who had a remarkable memory for facts, said as he handed it to me, "Here it is, just as good as new - nobody has asked for it since you did ten years ago."
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
