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The Darn pachyderm and the digressions of a puzzled reader
A fragmentary monologue riffs on a public figure named Waitara and a journalist’s imagined dialogue about a woman named Waitara and a mystery, mixing oblique references to a disease survey and a naval or commercial society. The text meanders through names, places, and speculative claims with little coherent reporting. The piece references a U.S. survey of pellagra and a controversy over male and female susceptibility, noting mortality changes from 1910 to 1911 and a call for investigation.
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Murturit
Pallagra
United States
Mineo
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