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The Man Without a Country

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The Man Without a Country	comment	"The Man Without a Country" is an 1863 short story by Edward Everett Hale.Once School Study Media, now largely forgotten, it tells the story of an unfortunate army officer, Lt. Phillip Nolan. In 1805 Nolan is a bored, frustrated officer at a remote fort on the Ohio River in what is now southern Illinois. He meets former Vice President Aaron Burr, who has cooked up some cockeyed scheme to create a new country out of the recently acquired American lands west of the Mississippi River. (This, or something like this, really happened.). Nolan eagerly joins, hopeful for glory and fame. However, the Burr conspiracy is exposed and those who participated in it, including Nolan, are brought to trial. At his court martial, Nolan is incautious enough to say "D__n the United States! I wish I may never hear of the United States again!"That's exactly what happens. The judge at the court martial sentences Lt. Nolan to never hear the name of the United States again. He is sentenced to life imprisonment at sea aboard United States Navy vessels. He is not allowed to see the United States again (he is transferred from ship to ship before the ship he's on reaches home port). He is never allowed to set foot on dry land anywhere, lest he hear from a third party about the United States. He is not allowed to read any book that mentions the United States, and the newspapers and magazines he is allowed to read aboard ship are censored, with all mentions of the United States cut out. No one on the various ships where Nolan is imprisoned is allowed to even mention the United States of America.This punishment lasts for fifty-eight years."The Man Without a Country" has been adapted for the screen several times, including a 1917 short film, a 1937 short film, and a 1973 TV movie.
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The Man Without a Country / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Nolan is repeatedly referred to as A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY, capital letters and all.
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The Man Without a Country / int_1d7d1b93	type	Remake Cameo
The Man Without a Country / int_1d7d1b93	comment	Remake Cameo: Holmes Herbert, who played Phillip Nolan in the 1917 film, appeared as Aaron Burr in this version.
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The Man Without a Country / int_2fac1b86	type	Flying Dutchman
The Man Without a Country / int_2fac1b86	comment	Flying Dutchman: A particularly cruel variant. Because of one ill-considered remark at his trial, Nolan is given a life sentence to be imprisoned at sea.
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The Man Without a Country / int_3d5377e5	type	First-Person Peripheral Narrator
The Man Without a Country / int_3d5377e5	comment	First-Person Peripheral Narrator: The narrator of the story is an unnamed naval officer who served aboard a ship with Nolan for several years. While the narrator knew Nolan personally, much of the rest of the story is only half-verified gossip and legend. For example, the narrator is not sure whether the Navy actively decided to imprison Nolan at sea for life, or if they simply forgot about him.
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The Man Without a Country / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Man Without a Country / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Nolan's punishment is a particularly vicious and merciless one. Clapping him in jail or exiling him would have both been more reasonable.
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The Man Without a Country / int_66925086	type	Monochrome to Color
The Man Without a Country / int_66925086	comment	Monochrome to Color: Inverted. The whole film is in Technicolor, except for the last minute, after Nolan dies. That's in black and white.
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The Man Without a Country / int_9e1e14ea	type	Ambition Is Evil
The Man Without a Country / int_9e1e14ea	comment	Ambition Is Evil: Well, it certainly bit Nolan in the butt.
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The Man Without a Country / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
The Man Without a Country / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: Nolan wishes to never see or hear of the United States again, and he gets just that, in the form of a particularly pitiless punishment.
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The Man Without a Country / int_c007c53	type	Cool and Unusual Punishment
The Man Without a Country / int_c007c53	comment	Cool and Unusual Punishment: Nolan initially scoffs at his Be Careful What You Wish For punishment, but it becomes a cruel lifelong torture, as he spends fifty-eight years at sea, never laying eyes on or hearing about the United States.
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The Man Without a Country / int_c8d6d621	type	I Will Wait for You
The Man Without a Country / int_c8d6d621	comment	I Will Wait for You: Marian says "I promise to wait for you no matter how long it may be," and she keeps that promise. She works for 56 years to get Nolan a pardon, dying literally the instant after Abraham Lincoln agrees to let Nolan come home.
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The Man Without a Country / int_c955269e	type	The Stateless
The Man Without a Country / int_c955269e	comment	The Stateless: He is literally "the man without a country."
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The Man Without a Country / int_d558b013	comment	Unperson: The narrator thinks Nolan may have become this, although he isn't sure if Nolan was deliberately made an un-person or he was simply forgotten.
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The Man Without a Country / int_ead0869d	comment	Acquitted Too Late: Pardoned too late. Abraham Lincoln finally agrees to let Nolan come home, but he dies at sea soon after.
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