The Guardian's misquoting T.S. Eliot proves the importance of punctuation

Picture The Guardian has recently published several articles about an art exhibition inspired by Eliot's poem "The Waste Land." Because the exhibition is in Margate, they're keen to quote a part that mentions the place. However, at least three articles in the paper misquote it, changing its meaning.

While trying bizarrely to reduce the poem, which has multiple voices,  to a personal depiction of mental illness,  Jonathan McAloon claims: “'On Margate Sands,' he wrote, 'I can connect / Nothing wit...
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Published on February 13, 2018 10:06
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