When I was a kid growing up in England in the 1960s, we would construct "guys"--scarecrows--in early November and go door-to-door asking for "a penny for the guy." Then we'd take our pennies and buy fireworks to set off on the night of November 5. There were usually big bonfires that night too. There's a T.S. Elliott poem that begins "a penny for the old guy," but I'm too lazy to look up which one.
Ah, yes, the rewards of being an English major. I liked that poem when I was in high school, though, before I even became an English major. I was, you might say, a potential English major.
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When I was a kid growing up in England in the 1960s, we would construct "guys"--scarecrows--in early November and go door-to-door asking for "a penny for the guy." Then we'd take our pennies and buy fireworks to set off on the night of November 5. There were usually big bonfires that night too. There's a T.S. Elliott poem that begins "a penny for the old guy," but I'm too lazy to look up which one.
Epigraph for "The Hollow Men," right?
Thank you, Professor.
Ah, yes, the rewards of being an English major. I liked that poem when I was in high school, though, before I even became an English major. I was, you might say, a potential English major.
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