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INTERPOSITION
Bet:ween the writer and his J?QelIl,
the teacher and his work, the man
his wife, she comes-the figment
of a dream. A dream which meant
itself: no more: and needed
no interpreting. And to the literary
mind. a sylph of Pope's
would came to mind-the -fact
of which suqgests a tone
of satire, parody. It fits--
the fool at mercy of his conjure-
ups, deserving nothing less
t:han what he gets. For the muse
is a broad in boots who gets
.her pay to 1ay (or something
]JI)re). The wbore, she •s best
at filling-in, at int:errtlpting,
at delay. In time, the direst
need asJilerts i tsel.f; the pen
is seen as substitute; and life
resnmes its rut of perfectness.
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