Sublime

with many of the men killed in battle,

it referred to what the piece defined as tastelessness marked by "a contrast of luxury and squalor."$9

the beautiful relation of marriage and the lovely women who were mothers and nothing else;

Eliot had only one pair of shoes, black ones. They had a crackle finish as a result of an experiment. Eliot once tried to polish them with Johnson's Glo-Coat, which was a floorwax, not intended for shoes. One shoe was on his desk. The other was in the lavatory, on the rim of the washbasin. A maroon nylon sock, with garter attached, was in each shoe

pettishly.

Haruko left a tiny laughing brass Buddha up high, in a corner of the attic, where he is still laughing to this day.

And then he thought about Africa, and the Nazi experiment there. And his blood stopped in his veins, hesitated, at last went

“For five dollars more I’ll do it.”

Papa was to have gone that noon, during his lunch hour, to the office of the Home Owners’ Loan. If he had not succeeded in getting another extension, they would be leaving this house in which they had lived for more than fourteen years. There was little hope. The Home Owners’ Loan was hard. They sat, making their plans. “We’ll be moving into a nice