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...physical nature of man-birth and passion and death-to flames. The one that forms the central panel of The Waste Land tries to burn away the sordid sterility of casual modern sex. Wright Morris' bonfire is more modest. What goes up in flames is the treasure and junk that three or four generations of stiff-backed people have squirreled away in an empty homestead-including various machines supplied with cranks that "would all do something if cranked, but few would crank...
...into the twentieth century. Over the summer we converted to a photo-offset printing process. There are advantages and disadvantages. The advantages are that our pictures come out much clearer, our layout is more flexible, and we save a lot of money. We can now print any piece of junk that strikes our fancy (see right) simply by sticking it on a layout sheet and sending it out to Lowell, where the paper is now printed...
...justified, we must first type them on machines that produce long printed tapes (such as the one above) which we then feed into a computer which produces neat columns of type (like the one you're reading), which we then paste onto the layout sheet along with the junk (see right again...
...least until "1984", the police will not prowl the dorms seeking junk. But when they get good information that someone has a sizeable load of same, expect them to act and act promptly. Robert Tonis Chief of University Police
...dedicated The Waste Land to him) and even of Yeats. But sometime in the 1930s something went tragically askew. The man Eliot called "the greatest poet alive" lapsed into an aging crank, teasing out nutty monetary theories, making Fascist noises about "international Jewry" as "the true enemy," stuffing junk and glories into a multilingual magpie epic called The Cantos. During World War II he made pro-Axis broadcasts from Rome. Accused of treason and brought back to the U.S., he escaped trial when he was certified insane, but for the next twelve years was shut up in a madhouse...