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AT LARGE AND AT SMALL.(A biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

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From: American Scholar
Date: 19990922
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A biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge analyzes his fondness for running away.

Coleridge the Runaway

In 1779, when Samuel Taylor Coleridge was seven, he asked his mother to slice him some cheese for toasting: "no easy matter, it being a crumbly cheese." His older brother Frank, his great rival in the family, sneaked into the kitchen and, "to disappoint the favorite," minced the cheese into tiny, untoastable pieces. Sam flew at Frank; Frank pretended to be seriously hurt; when Sam bent over him with fearful solicitude, Frank laughed and punched him in the face. At this juncture, ...

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