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English I Ms. Campbell Edward Tamsberg Oct. 8, 2002 Notes on Vauxhall On the last night at Vauxhall there is always a riot. Why? Everyone seems to know it is coming, or am I mistaken? Could it simply be that all law-enforcement and staff of the garden are simply not told and that they have yet to pick up on the fact that there is a destructive, annual tradition? Wait- what am I saying? The police and grounds-keepers are probably all involved in the riot. Why? Why destroy the place you go to have fun for an evening? Why torch the booth in which you ate dinner? Isn't Vauxhall supposed to be a place of relaxation and enjoyment? Clifford Geertz makes the theory in his work "Deep Play: Notes on a Balinese Cockfight" that certain events and places in our society hold cultural significance. Perhaps it is just a place to let go. Society...

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