(A sequel to The Lost Word)
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The number "38" might refer, notably, to
- The old postal code of Harvard University,
- the caliber of one type of handgun…
… and, less notably, to a page number
that appears in most books.
T.S. Eliot's essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent"
was first published in 1919.*
For some background on that year, see the Harvard Class of 1919.
For a notable instance of the page number 38, see
Poetry and Belief in the Work of T.S. Eliot ,
by Kristian Smidt (first published in 1949 by
the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters).
* "Tradition and the Individual Talent" in The Egoist
at the Modernist Journals Project:
Part I in Vol. 6, No. 4 (Sept. 1919),
Parts II-III in Vol. 6, No. 5 (Dec. 1919)