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.

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

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.