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Every day, enormous mounds of soggy Lucky Charms, half-eaten apples and rubbery chicken pieces pile up in the dish rooms of Harvard's dining halls...
Many students have given an obligatory glance in the direction of the trademark carrots and proceeded to pile their plates high with breads, brownies, and whatever food happens to strike the individual fancy...
Every day, enormous mounds of banana peels, half-eaten apples and rubbery chicken pieces pile up in the dish rooms of Harvard's dining halls...
Many students have given an obligatory glancein the direction of the trademark carrots andproceeded to pile their plates high with breads,brownies, and whatever food happens to strike theindividual fancy...
...quite-out sensibilities of the two writers. Waits, the bard of last-chance saloons, has never taken deader aim at the line that separates the mordant from the maudlin. On the one hand, there's November, a bitter hymn to the month that "only believes in a pile of dead leaves/ And a moon that's the color of bone." On the other, there's I'll Shoot the Moon, in which Kathchen, daydreaming about her lover, vows to "be the pennies on your eyes" and "build a nest in your hair...