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Waiting for the Last Bus

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by Richard Holloway


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  22 Letter of John Keats to George and Tom Keats, 1817 (No. 45).

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  30 Warnock, Mary. Green College Lecture, 1996: http://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/304/6833/1045.full.pdf

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  32 Romans 8:28.

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  34 In: Smart, Ninian and Richard D. Hecht, Sacred Texts of the World: A Universal Anthology. London: Quercus, 2007, pp. 163–64.

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  67 2 Samuel 18:33.

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  98 Donaghy, Collected Poems, p. 216.

  99 Hebrews 13:2.

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  101 Waddell, Helen quoted in D. Felicitas Corrigan, Helen Waddell: A Biography. ‘The Mournes’. London: Victor Gollancz, 1986, p. 222.

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