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The first thing Martin did next morning was to go counter both to Brissenden's advice and command. "The Shame of the Sun" he wrapped and mailed to THE ACROPOLIS. He believed he could find magazine publication for it, and he felt that recognition by the magazines would commend him to the book-publishing houses. "Ephemera" he likewise wrapped and mailed to a magazine. Despite Brissenden's prejudice against the magazines, which was a pronounced mania3 with him, Martin decided4 that the great poem should see print. He did not intend, however, to publish it without the other's permission. His plan was to get it accepted by one of the high magazines, and, thus armed, again to wrestle5 with Brissenden for consent.
Martin began, that morning, a story which he had sketched6 out a number of weeks before and which ever since had been worrying him with its insistent7 clamor to be created. Apparently8 it was to be a rattling9 sea story, a tale of twentieth-century adventure and romance, handling real characters, in a real world, under real conditions. But beneath the swing and go of the story was to be something else - something that the superficial reader would never discern and which, on the other hand, would not diminish in any way the interest and enjoyment10 for such a reader. It was this, and not the mere11 story, that impelled12 Martin to write it. For that matter, it was always the great, universal motif13 that suggested plots to him. After having found such a motif, he cast about for the particular persons and particular location in time and space wherewith and wherein to utter the universal thing. "

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doctrine
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whit
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socialist
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veins
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controversy
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shear
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outrageous
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ravages
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inveterate
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reactionary
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futility
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socialists
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innate
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paucity
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