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Updated: June 4, 2025
"Ask you to take the nomination for the legislature." The crowd indorsed the request with viva-voce enthusiasm. "I certainly will. I am pleased and proud," declared Usial. Through the circle of men came Prophet Elias, his robe trailing on his heels. He stood beside Usial and faced the bystanders. He proclaimed, "'Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors, through Him that loved us."
"I began by an examination into 'The Milky Way." Sir Tiglath impounded another crumpet. "Go on, young man," he cried. "The old astronomer lendeth ear." The Prophet, who felt very much like a nervous undergraduate undergoing a viva-voce examination, continued, "I became deeply interested, strongly attracted by the the heavenly bodies. They fascinated me. I could think of nothing else."
This poem described the agonies of a viva-voce examination, and it derived its title from two facts of evil omen that the Vulture plucks its victim, and that the Husbandman makes his living by ploughing: The base expedients to which an examination reduces its victims are hit off with much dexterity in "The Heathen Pass-ee," a parody of an American poem which is too familiar to justify quotation:
This problem still remains for further investigation. "July 4, our national holiday, a viva-voce election and Council of the Elders was held. They still insist on choosing me as Kromno. I weary of the task, and would gladly give it over to some younger man.
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