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According to its author, a line of poetry about this phenomenon quotes from a translation by Henry Clarke Warren. In another poem by that author, a “dove descending breaks the air / With” this phenomenon (10[1])“of incandescent terror.” That author included a line about this phenomenon between two quotations from St. Augustine’s Confessions: (-5[1])“To Carthage then I came” and “O Lord Thou pluckest me out.” (10[2])After (10[2]-5[2])a two-line quotation from Julian of Norwich, the declaration that all will be well when this phenomenon (-5[2])“and the rose are one” (10[1])closes (10[3])“Little Gidding.” A section titled (10[1]-5[1])for this phenomenon includes the lines, (-5[1])“Twit twit twit (-5[1])/ Jug jug jug jug jug jug,” and is directly followed by “Death by Water” and “What the Thunder Said.” (10[2])For 10 points, (10[2])the third section of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (-5[1])is a Buddha-inspired sermon about what phenomenon? ■END■ (10[7]0[4])

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