"Old Bugs" by H.P. Lovecraft

An Extemporaneous Sob Story
by Marcus Lollius, Proconsul of Gaul

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Sesquipedalian is a long-winded, polysyllabic way of saying long-winded or polysyllabic :-P

An anacreontic is a poem written in the style of the ancient Greek poet Anacreon, especially one celebrating love and wine.

The picture used is "Mars Bar NYC" by ChrisGoldNY, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/).

To follow along: https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/ob.aspx