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The Fivehundredandeightyeighth
And while, in the room, the women come and go, talking of
Michaelangelo, they never notice the milky-white marmorean statue at
the door, why would they, it is neither significant nor attributed,
but when J Alfred Prufrock, his starched high collar cutting into his
neck, paused to untie and re-tie his
shoe laces quite unnecessarily,
the white eyes of the statue seemed almost to gaze upon him and
though the lips barely shivered, Prufrock heard a voice of calm
mansuetude inform him that "on the night of 17th-18th September,
the first Sudetendeutsches
Freikorps Assaults
will take place in the vicinity of Aš
in The Sudetenland: them's the salient facts, now listen carefully, I
shall say this only once . . . . . . . . . ." and 20 minutes
later, his head filled with more information than he had ever had
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