SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 7758 Set by Strix Minimus
The usual prize of 150 dollars is offered for the first correct tape recording to be received of a doggerel translation into basic Martian polyameters of Wordsworth's 'The World Was Too Much With Us.' The use of electronic brains is permitted. provided they are registered in accordance with the Act of State 6944 of 2023 regulating free- dom of speech, opinion and thought through- out the world and its associated territories.
Competitors will be penalized if they con- travene the Act of State 8531 of 1995 concern- ing cultural decadence and the practice of metrical rhyming.
This competition is compulsory and entries must be submitted within' three days to Office 261/Z, The Ministry for the Protection of Cultural Affairs, London. Pseudonyms are not accepted.
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