This paradox whence? this squalor, this splendor?

Say, was I king, or silly pretender?

Fathom the mystery, deep in my history—

Was I a man?

An angel supernal, a demon infernal?

Solve it who can.

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103.

A blind beggar had a brother. This blind beggar’s brother went to sea and was drowned. But the man that was drowned had no brother. What relation to him, then, was the blind beggar?

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