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The Professor’s House

by Willa Cather

As a middle-age professor moves house, he contemplates the legacy of his most brilliant student.

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You step into the hollow shell of a house so ugly it's almost a character, listening to the same creaky boards that have annoyed this professor for twenty years. He looks like a Spaniard or Mephistopheles, but right now he's just a man missing his old Versailles bathroom.

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