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W. H. Auden Quotes

Some thirty inches from my nose. The frontier of my Person goes, And all the untilled air between. Is private pagus or demesne. Stranger, unless with bedroom eyes. I beckon you to fraternize, Beware of rudely crossing it: I have no gun, but I can spit.

W. H. Auden

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