But no Man Pities another for any Evil lying upon Him, which he would not help, but which he could not. One is his Burden, the other his Choice; Vertually at least, since he might have Chosen its Prevention.

1932: ‘Silence, silence,’ the trumpet mouths indefatigably repeated at intervals down every corridor—Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

About a hundred yards further North says Troutbeck, is a 'subterraneous' cavern called the Pope's Hole, about fifty fathoms under the ground, into which the sea flows, so called from a sort of bird which roosts in it by night, about ninety feet high above the level of the water.!! … It derives its name from its being a place of shelter to some puffins, vulgo popes.

Minimum Wage is a local punk/alternative music zine in Saint John and Moncton, NB. Poet and editor, Maggie Helwig and Lowlife Publishing have been irregularly publishing CRASH, a litzine for many years.