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scenes— harrowing only if they have any resemblance to reality, which these had not— have nothing to do with written dramatic art. They are neither edifying, entertaining nor provocative : of emotion unless the listener is one' of those persons who take delight in witnessing human beings dying in. extremis and suffering the pangs of hell."
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