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+\headline={\hfil 10 May, 1703}
+\nopagenumbers
+\noindent Dear People of Salem, \bigskip
+
+You each and all embody the corruption of Godgiven morality, and I condemn you on His behalf.
+There is no excuse for your unjust convictions of myself, my wife, and our fellow countrymen.
+Your rascality forces me to die for your indulgences---something no man ought face without cause, of which I know you to have had none for you heathens would have taken any confession, regardless of its truth simply to save your reputations.
+My name has been preserved but not without the loss of fibrousness throughout the great providence of Massachussets.
+Had I falsely confessed as you sinners wish, I would become equally corrupted; I would be a co-conspirator in the murder of my wife and of Rebecca.
+And it is by your illicit errors.
+
+Parris, you could not see past your own greed and conniptions.
+
+Putnam and Goody Putnam, you have wrought upon us your ineptitudes, and you have permitted no man to escape your lust.
+Both of you lust yet for power, for land, for wealth without bound.
+It is not a Godfearing man's prerogative to accuse his fellows of wizardry and bewitching.
+But it is that of a scoundrel.
+
+And Abigail, you have committed the gravest sin yet: false witness, adultery, and disrespecting God Himself.
+It is not my position that you are deserving of hanging or of burning at the stake.
+But Abigail, girl, you have atonement yet far beyond any reasonable amount for any singular person.
+
+God scowls at your souls, for the barbaric murder of Rebecca---the godliest woman any of you have set your eyes save Mary of Nazareth herself.
+For the inhesitant killing of Elizabeth.
+For thine false witness and thine worship of those other than Him.
+For the ineptitude and for your inconsiderations.
+How may you walk free from your sins when you could have prevented every death by your very own hands.
+
+If Danforth were but an iota less hasty, if Parris had listened to but a fragment of Rebecca's words, if Abigail and her goons were not trusted beyond the word of god Himself, if Putnam had admitted to a singular falsity, if Corey's witness were not neglected beyond sense, perhaps I would not be hanged.
+
+\bigskip
+\noindent Yours truly,
+%\noindent Fuck you,
+\smallskip\noindent John Proctor
+
+\bye
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+\input mla8.tex
+
+\numberfirstpage
+\clas{AP Lang}
+\name{Holden} \last{Rohrer}
+\prof{Jones}
+\header
+\title{``Enchanted Objects'' in the Great Gatsby}
+
+In the Great Gatsby, Gatsby's enchanted object is the green light at the end of Daisy's dock.
+Nick considers it to be enchanted or magcal because the green light is a symbol---a symbol of longing.
+I have no enchanted object of similar magnitude to Gatsby's because I don't long for much; in fact, what could be considered an enchanted object is already close to me.
+For my ``enchanted object,'' I would probably list something given to me as a gift by my grandmother---a small metal rod that vibrates at a particular frequency.
+It, specifically, holds no special emotional or symbolic importance, but I value it greatly because it represents my family, somewhat.
+
+Both my sisters and I have one of them, and I believe my grandmother got them from a trip oversease somewhere, and they are not unique or rare.
+But I value it because the object is representative of her relationship with me and my immediate family.
+She's an admirably giving person, and the small metal rod represents that despite its lack of intrinsic or attributed individual value.
+Separate from Gatsby, I don't think the enchantment of the object could be lost---I already own it, and it's not associated with any longing or any conflict which could possibly be resolved at some point in the future.
+So it is static.
+The enchantment of the object is derived from a general sense of emotional attachment to it, but like Gatsby's enchantment, it is valuable and relevant.
+The object holds value despite its materialism.
+
+\bye