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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2016-04-22 22:14:39 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2016-04-22 22:14:39 +0000 |
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/tex/context/sample/common/davis.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/tex/context/sample/common/davis.tex new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..8d45c984924 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/tex/context/sample/common/davis.tex @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +This nation, turning 100 years old, had no {\em Odyssey}, no +St.~George slaying the dragon, no Prometheus. The emerging American +genius for making a lot of money was a poor substitute for King +Arthur and his knights (although the Horatio Alger myth of rags to +riches was good for a lot of mileage). Without a mythology and set +of ancient heroes to call its own, America had to manufacture its +heroes. So the mythmaking machinery of nineteenth|-|century American +media created a suitable heroic archetype in the cowboys of the Wild +West. The image was of the undaunted cattle drivers living a life of +reckless individualism, braving the elements, staving off brutal +Indian attacks. Or of heroic lawmen dueling with six|-|guns in the +streets at high noon. This artificial Wild West became America's +Iliad.
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