"Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is already prepared Men lighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding, Reflecting a pocket-torch of observation..."
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T. S. Eliot, in T.s. Eliot The Dramatist, p. 146
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