Bathyscaph Discovers Huge Monostich Cache

The Metapenguin, a literary submersible, trolling the dark and troublous waters of the lesser-known works of G.K. Chesterton, has unearthed a rich vein of hitherto-unsuspected monostichs.   These have all been mined from the 1914 novel (not otherwise among my favorites), The Flying Inn.

~  Landwards, the hills   ~

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~  the purple limit of the sea ~

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~  a tower of the gigantic Genii, with turrets  up to the moon ~

GKC

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~  green darkness in the cellars of the sea ~

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~   the blade of a jack-knife   caught and re-caught   the steady splendors of the moon ~

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~   proletarian early-risers,   wearier at morning  than most men at night ~

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~  the sea  is the fulfilment  of a river  ~

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