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Unreal city,
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
I had not thought death had undone so many.

— T. S. Eliot The Waste Land (1922)

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This is a reference to Dante's Inferno, Canto III, lines 55-57

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