What element of literary nonsense is present in the following excerpt from carl sandburg's "how the animals lost their tails and got them back traveling from philadelphia to medicine hat"? he was from massachusetts, born near chappaquiddick, this old flongboo, and he lived there in a horse chestnut tree six feet thick halfway between south hadley and northampton. and at night, before he lost his tail, he lighted up the big hollow cave inside the horse chestnut tree with his yellow torch of a tail.