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Out of a cell into this darkened space --
The end at twenty-five!
My tongue could not speak what stirred within me, / And the village thought me a fool.
Yet at the start there was a clear vision, / A high and urgent purpose in my soul / Which drove me on trying to memorize / The Encyclopedia Britannica!