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align=justify><SPAN><FONT color=#000000>“Some previous luncher had left the
lunch edition of the evening paper on a chair, and, waiting to be served, I
began idly reading the headlines.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A
ribbon of very large letters ran across the page.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Somebody had made a big score in South
Africa.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Lesser ribbons announced
that Sir Austen Chamberlain was at Geneva.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>A meat axe with human hair on it had been found in a cellar.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mr. Justice —— commented in the Divorce
Courts upon the Shamelessness of Women.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Sprinkled about the paper were other pieces of news.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A film actress had been lowered from a
peak in California and hung suspended in mid-air.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The weather was going to be
foggy.”</FONT></SPAN></P>
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color=#000000>When David Bradshaw and I edited <I style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">A
Room of One’s Own</I> for Wiley Blackwell in 2015 (the very last of the
Shakespeare Head Edition that had begun far back in 1992), we attempted to
identify all these references.<SPAN
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The easiest to
identify precisely was ‘Shameless Women’. The meat axe and the ‘suspended
actress’ defeated us.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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color=#000000></FONT> </P>
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align=justify><FONT color=#000000><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa'>I’ve
had an <SPAN class=quotationKeyword
style="BORDER-BOTTOM: gray 1px dotted; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><EM>aperçu.</EM>
Could there possibly be an obscure ref. or nod to the epigraph to “The Waste
Land”, which starts with a quote from <FONT
color=#000000>“</FONT></SPAN></SPAN><FONT
color=#000000>The<SPAN> </SPAN></FONT><A title=Satyricon
style="TEXT-DECORATION: ; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; COLOR: "
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyricon"><FONT
style="TEXT-DECORATION: none" color=#000000>Satyricon</FONT></A><FONT
color=#000000><SPAN>” </SPAN>of<SPAN> </SPAN></FONT><A title=Petronius
style="TEXT-DECORATION: ; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; COLOR: "
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petronius"><FONT
style="TEXT-DECORATION: none" color=#000000>Petronius</FONT></A></FONT><FONT
color=#000000>:</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 6px 0px"><FONT color=#000000>'Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego
ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere ...” (<SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; FLOAT: none; COLOR: ; ORPHANS: 2; WIDOWS: 2; DISPLAY: inline !important; LETTER-SPACING: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial">"Indeed,
I myself saw with my own eyes the<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN></FONT><A
title="Cumaean Sibyl"
style="TEXT-DECORATION: ; FONT-FAMILY: ; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; COLOR: ; ORPHANS: 2; WIDOWS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumaean_Sibyl"><FONT
style="TEXT-DECORATION: none" color=#000000>Sibyl</FONT></A><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; FLOAT: none; COLOR: ; ORPHANS: 2; WIDOWS: 2; DISPLAY: inline !important; LETTER-SPACING: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial"><FONT
color=#000000><SPAN> </SPAN>of<SPAN> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><A
title=Cumae
style="TEXT-DECORATION: ; FONT-FAMILY: ; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; COLOR: ; ORPHANS: 2; WIDOWS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumae"><FONT style="TEXT-DECORATION: none"
color=#000000>Cumae</FONT></A><FONT color=#000000><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; FLOAT: none; COLOR: ; ORPHANS: 2; WIDOWS: 2; DISPLAY: inline !important; LETTER-SPACING: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial"><SPAN> </SPAN>hanging
in a [two-handled] flask</SPAN>)</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<P style="MARGIN: 6px 0px"><FONT color=#000000>Stuart</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 6px 0px"><FONT color=#000000>(Day 134)</FONT></P>
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