A Card of Casuistry Y E F Benson Part L Davos Morning
In mid January a Davos morning glitters as a cosmopolitan crowd moves past the Beau Site hotel. Jack Lamborn battles debt and addiction through intense bridge games aimed at funding his mother’s care, facing a cruel arc of luck, guilt, and a final confession to a physician who helped save her and tests his own conscience.
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Davos
Beau Site Hotel
Ioralids
Klosters Tun
England
Jack
Riviera
Italy
Tack
Tom
Lark
Flo
Jack Lamborn
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We Are the Creators of a Modern Great Dream
A rhapsodic call to progress and power, praising science, invention, and uplift. It imagines an era of flight, energy, and radiant humanity, with visions of advancing society through technology, education, and communal love. The speaker invokes youth, ambition, and limitless possibility.
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Earth
To the Man of War Bird in Storm and Dawn
Poetic homage to a ship of boundless power. The speaker views a steadfast bird aloft as a symbol of endurance over a raging sea. Dawn breaks with rosy light while the bird remains tireless on prodigious wings, spanning gale and sky from Senegal to America.
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Hou
Senegal
America
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