"Signs are taken for wonders." -T.S. Eliot

Campaign signs at Aronis' Restaurant. Cleary Square, Hyde Park. September, 1981. In that year's preliminary election, 40 candidates ran for 9 at-large seats in the last election before the City Council was reconfigured.

History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors
And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions,
Guides us by vanities. Think now
She gives when our attention is distracted
And what she gives, gives with such supple confusions
That the giving famishes the craving. Gives too late
What's not believed in, or if still believed,
In memory only, reconsidered passion.

-T.S. Eliot, "Gerontion"

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