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A Nashville Drizzle and a Confederate Coat Tale
A travelogue piece recounts a drizzle drenched Nashville visit linked to a fictional narrator's hotel stay and a meeting with Major Wentworth Caswell. The narrator, reflecting on southern charm and irony, encounters a gaudy kept-up hotel lobby, a contentious bar exchange, and a farcical journey to a decayed Jessamine Street mansion through a city famed as a manufacturing hub.
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San Francisco
the Golden Gate
Bagdad
New World
Nashville
Tenheases
Cumberland River
N.C
Bi. L
London
Sidney Carton
Lookout Mountain
Rip van Winkle
Hood
Thomas
Ife
Major
Wentworth Caswell
A. Tennyson
Caswell
Sherman
Plug
Fort Sumter
Appomattox
Adam
Eve
Land of Nod
Ladies’ Exchange
United States
Inmoat
Nesire
Azalea Adair
Adal
Temas
Adair
Pti
Apele Caesar
Pyramids
Brutus
Cetewnyo
Joseph
Hambimself
Jessamine Street
Pegro
Jev
Jebu
Cetewayo
Theo