Two minor miracles, or, So help(ed) me God : being the veridical account of how, on two occasions, almighty God volunteered His assistance, once to my advantage and once to my great annoyance, chagrin & disgust 1950 / K. Porter de Gouges Garnett-Garnett, F.L.M. ("Merryman Lovejoy") .

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Two minor miracles, or, So help(ed) me God : being the veridical account of how, on two occasions, almighty God volunteered His assistance, once to my advantage and once to my great annoyance, chagrin & disgust 1950 / K. Porter de Gouges Garnett-Garnett, F.L.M. ("Merryman Lovejoy") .

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An account of two instances in the life of Bohemian Club member, printer, and author Porter Garnett in which naturally occuring events coincided with his creative efforts. In Divine Afflatus, an earthquake in August of 1903 occured while he struggled to come up with the right words for his acrostic. The words "earthquake shock" helped him complete his work. The author includes a letter he wrote to to the Seismological Society of America in 1950 and their response confirming that an earthquake did occur in San Francisco at the time he was composing the acrostic. In Deux Ex Machina, the author tells the story of a lightning bolt and rolling thunder followed by a deluge coinciding with the delivery of a line of dialogue in a play he wrote and was being performed in Walla Walla, Washington in May, 1914. The actor playing Jupiter brandishes a thunderbolt and says "I, with fiery bolt shall cleave the crust of the earth..." at the very moment an actual lightning bolt flashes and the thunder drowns out the rest of the actor's words. This was followed by a deluge of rain that forced the rest of the play to be cancelled that day.

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Porter Garnett, a native of San Francisco, was prominent in West Coast literary activities and in fine printing. He co-founded "The Lark" with Gelett Burgess, was a dramatic and literary critic, an assistant curator at The Bancroft Library (1907-12), and founder of the Laboratory Press while professor of graphic arts at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (1922-35). Garnett was also an active member of the Bohemian Club. From the description of Two minor miracles, or, So help(ed) me...