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Saints and Poets
In the middle of a court epic flattering a king, the poem stops dead and a homesick man writes about a forest.
Pampa wrote two enormous poems in a single year, and one of them is two poems at once.
The trick is announced rather than hidden. The Vikramarjuna Vijaya is a retelling of the Mahabharata, compressed hard, with Arjuna at the centre of it.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.