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Dwindle, dwindle, Big big war, How I wonder more and more,

As about the world you hop, when you ever mean to stop.’

– Author’s adaptation of the satirical Anglo-Boer War verse by Saki (Hector Munro), The Westminster Alice (London, 1902).

‘I want the wisdom ignorant of wars and the soft key that opens all the locks.

I want the touch of fur, the slant of sun deep in a golden, slotted, changing eye.’

– verse extract, Ursula K. Le Guin, ‘Futurology’, in Liz Gray (ed.), You have breath for no more than 99 words. What would they be? (London, 2011).