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Vicious Verse Viles Candid Claverly Wall

Claverly Hall's wall, long a vehicle for erudite expression and esoteric language, gave local literati a break this week with its first readable sentiment in several months, a limerick in plain English. Apparently scrawled in extreme haste in the dead of night, the limerick reads:

THERE ONCE WAS A MAN OVERWEANING.

WHO EXPOUNDED THE MEANING OF MEANING.

IN THE LIMELIGHT HE BASKED 'TIL AT LAST HE WAS ASKED

THE MEANING OF MEANING OF MEANING.

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Local academicians attribute the rhyme to an outbreak of deviationism by several young instructors in a major social science department.

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