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Published: 07.11.1996.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln ', 1.
  • Essays 'The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln ', 2.
  • Essays 'The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln ', 3.
Extract

To whom it may concern:
My name is Louis. Here I sit; in this tiny room; at this small wooden night table; amongst the shadows that hide between the spaces of light and my sanity; trying to write. Here I sit; staring, for the last time out a porthole of a window into a world of whose pleasures I will no longer experience. It is so quiet. If not for the faint pattering of rain droplets upon the pane of glass, I fear that I will surely go insane. If I am not already. Sunken, am I, in my mind's misery. …

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