Have you ever read "The Imp of the Perverse"?

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From: Nancy Gish [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 4:42 PM
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Have you ever considered behaving? Why not--since you see so clearly
how wrong everyone else is--give the uncontrovertible true brilliant
reading you must be keeping from us all?

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It would seem then that Eliot intended the word to be capitalised.
Interesting that no one has considered why. All the discussion has
gone into parsing the editions. Just as no one paid any attention
to Debra's hypotheticial context.

I must say, Debra has found a unique way to crack this list wide open.
I've never seen such avoidance of focus. No wonder I feel compelled
to misbehave.

P.

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From: Marcia Karp [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 6:53 AM
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William Gray wrote:

>Well, I have a first edition of FOUR QUARTETS, which on page 24
capitalizes
the word. I also have a copy of The Complete Poems and Plays 1909-1950
which
capitalizes the word on page 133.
>Hmm...this is interesting, because on page 195 of Collected Poems
1909-1962
the word is not capitalized. All of this makes me think the
editor/publisher
of CP made an error.
>Do you see any significance here?
>
>
>
Will,
    The HBJ Centenary Edition is also lowered case. What is of the
first significance to me (always) is to know what the poet wrote.
Errors can be introduced at any and all steps of printing, and there is
no way to guess at these things. This does seem like the sort of thing
someonw must have written some pages on. Thanks.

    Tell us about your first edition.

Marcia