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Like my spirit is so willing,

I just hope that my brain and my heart and my body is strong enough to get me to where I want to go with my spirit.

My spirit. Hey, everyone, welcome to another episode of We Can Be Weirdos.

My name is Dan Schreiber. I'm coming to you today from my home at Roughway by C,

where I am sitting at my desk, just leaping through a book called Selected Poems by T.S. Eliot.

So I was reading a book recently, which I've mentioned on a Rough Corner in the past called All the Devils Are Here by David Seabrook.

This book that's written over two decades ago, David Seabrook, a journalist who walked around the Kent coast of the UK, sort of logging all the debauchery and all the interesting characters and all the oddities that were going on in all the places that he visited.

So like Rochester and Margates and Broadstairs and Ramsgate, all those areas.

And I discovered that in the opening pages, that in 1921, the poet T.S. Eliot moved down here because he'd suffered a sort of nervous breakdown and he came here to

recover, which is what Margate was back in the day. It was a sort of seaside destination for recovery,

get that sea air into you, and it can cure you of ailments, everything from actual disease to

mental health. And so he came down here to a hotel, which was called the Alba Mal. And it was

while he was living here that he sort of continued to write a poem that has become one of the

most famous poems to ever be penned by a British poet, which is called The Wasteland. And so, yeah,

I've just got the book in front of me, having a bit of a read about it. And I went on a little

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