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COMPETITION

No. 655: 'My gorge leaps up . .

Set by Caduta Mass!: 'Tired with all these, for restful death I cry . . . ' wrote Shakespeare (Sonnet Lxvi) and then listed in immortal verse the evils that thus oppressed him. Com- petitors are invited to compose a sonnet simi, larly unburdening themselves of some of the aspects of modern life that really nark them. Entries, marked 'Competition No. 655,' by 2 July.