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  • I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs Perceived the scene, and foretold the rest I too awaited the expected guest. He, the young man carbuncular, arrives, A small house agent's clerk, with one bold stare, One of the low on whom assurance sits As a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire.

    -T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
      The Waste Land, pt.3,'The Fire Sermon'.

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