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That Awful Girl

'It wasn't me. I wasn't there' And then your eyes begin to shift Searching the smoke-filled room as if To seek aid in this questionnaire. But no one comes. The red-haired clown......

Burgess's Wake

Gentlemen in their Season. By Gabriel Fielding. (Hutchinson, 30s.) Diary of a Chambermaid. By Octave Mirbeau. millan, 21s.) Finnegans Wake is a responsible monument to......