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Olwyn, the sister-in-law of a woman born to this family, described a “myth” of this family perpetuated by the epistle collection Letters Home. A poem recalls a woman in this family helping her children sing, “Thor is angry; boom boom boom!” during a hurricane. A poem (-5[1])addressed to a man (10[1])from this family (-5[1])is titled for a god created via Ouija board and describes him as “pithy and historical as the Roman (10[2])Forum.” (10[5])A (10[1])member of this family (10[1])is told, (10[2])“no frown of mine (10[2])/ will betray the (10[1])company (10[1])I keep” (10[1])in a poem inspired by a Giorgio de Chirico painting, “The Disquieting Muses.” The speaker tells (-5[1])a man in this family, (10[1])“I thought (10[1])every (-5[1])German was you” (10[2])in a (-5[1])poem (10[1])that (10[2])imagines (10[1])him (10[5])as “a man (10[1])in black (10[1])with a (10[2])Meinkampf (-5[2])look.” (10[8]-5[1])For 10 (10[1])points, (10[2])what family’s patriarch (10[1])Otto titles (10[2])his (10[1])daughter’s poem “Daddy”? ■END■ (10[7]0[2])

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