In this work, one character believes that God crucified Jesus "to get out of the wretched tangle", while another can only remark, "Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick!" In this work, an argument over whether a cow can have free will results in the cow goring the would-be philosophers to death. One character in this collection compares a doomed marriage to oxygen and hydrogen giving forth a "devastating fire" after Benjamin Pantier's wife drives him out to live with his dog. The assertion "It takes (*) life to love life" is made by Lucinda Matlock in this collection, w
In this work, one character believes that God crucified Jesus "to get out of the wretched tangle", while another can only remark, "Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick!" In this work, an argument over whether a cow can have free will results in the cow goring the would-be philosophers to death. One character in this collection compares a doomed marriage to oxygen and hydrogen giving forth a "devastating fire" after Benjamin Pantier's wife drives him out to live with his dog. The assertion "It takes (*) life to love life" is made by Lucinda Matlock in this collection, which ends with a satire written by Jonathan Swift Somers. Its first poem claims that "Old Fiddler Jones" now babbles about "what Abe Lincoln said / one time at Springfield" and asks "Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom and Charley" before answering "all, all are sleeping on the hill". For 10 points, name this poetry collection composed of epitaphs for inhabitants of the title town, written by Edgar Lee Masters.
In this work, one character believes that God crucified Jesus "to get out of the wretched tangle", while another can only remark, "Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick!"