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Highbury bore me

R Highbury bore me ...

Cf. Purgatorio, V. 133:

"Ricorditi di me, che son la Pia;
Siena mi fe', disfecemi Maremma." T [Eliot's note] Highbury: aresidential London suburb; Richmond: a pleasant part of London westward up the Thames, with boating and riverside hotels. Kew: adjoining Richmond, has the famous Kew Gardens. 

Purgatory, V.133 →Title of “Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar”Title of "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" linguistic analysis The syntactic parallelism of the title is striking, and in that particularly the presence of a colon. The syntactic structures of the title's two constituents are exactly the same -…Click for the full annotation →
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