| But above the grey land and the spasms of bleak dust
which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of
Dr. TJ Eckleburg. The eyes of Dr. TJ Eckleburg are blue and gigantic--
their retinas are one yard high. they look out of no face but, instead,
from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent
nose. Evidently some wild wag of an oculist set them there to fatten his
practice in the borough of Queens and then sank down himself into
eternal blindness or forgot them and moved away. But his eyes, dimmed a
little by many paintless days under sun and rain, brood on over the
solemn dumping ground.
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