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...most of all did my roommate like the fairies. His eyes opened with wonder at their gay, flowing robes, their merry whirl about the gleaming rod, pendent by their teeth. I, on the contrary was filled with worry. Once such a trapeze artist had broken that bridge, and out had come filling, artist and all. How sad and bad and mad it was, and yet . . I got some message out of it. For did not a lion tamer carry the poor artist from the arena amid cries of applauding multitudes who thought this a part of the show...
...children dead, the others undertake a last visit to the lighthouse. Like the music of a fugue, this movement touches the themes of the first, catches them in new cadences and changed echoes. The group of people for whom Mrs. Ramsay had been the axis, whirl and drift like the specks of a nebula. In a curious key, full of sharps, Author Woolf produces the effect of an enormous change in life where little change is apparent...
...this day and more particularly on this night when the Freshman class as a unit comes out and invades the dizzy social whirl, a whirl which will never again seem either so dizzy or so social, the CRIMSON offers its congratulations and extends metaphorical rose-buds to the debutante who dances amid the Georgian simplicity of the Freshman Halls. Tonight's Jubilee will go down in history as the best ever held, for such is the enviable fate of all Jubilees...
Hearken, friends, it is a story droP Of Gypsy Gorman, Spanish, chorus girl, Who wed for love, of course he had a roll, And tried to swim the social whirl. Jimmy Ralston was the wealthy swain Who wed this, Jewish, chorus dame; For act and act he tries in vain His Mother's wrath to fully maim...
Once more the Student Vagabond has returned, not this time from the dizzy whirl of vacation wanderings, but from the marble halls of Widener; once more he returns, metaphorically speaking, to the sound of music...