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Tag Archives: T.S. Eliot

How not to remove graffiti

In the last couple years, winter break has been the time when Facilities has made their rounds through the stacks and cleaned the graffiti from the walls. But when I dropped by the stacks this morning, I saw that not only have they jumped the gun this year, they also seem to have failed at [...]

The persistence of poetry

More additions have come to the T.S. Eliot piece on the 5th floor that got vicious a few weeks ago. After uploading the photos from today, I realized that the evolution of this piece isn’t what I initially thought. If you compare the original version of the poem and the one I thought Facilities had [...]

T.S. Eliot and his detractors

It’s been a rough couple weeks for T.S. Eliot in the Regenstein Library stacks. To recap: on June 9th, I discovered the first stanza of T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” on a wall, boldly written in sharpie. By July 1st, someone felt compelled to express how unimpressed they were. And so [...]