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First Line: He was found by the bureau of statistics to be
Last Line: Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd: %had anything been wrong, we should certainly hav
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Bourgeoisie; Bureaucracy; Conformity; Modern Man; Social Protest; Statistics And Statisticians




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