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Celebrated poet T.S. Eliot, known for works like The Waste Land, had a peculiar habit that baffled his contemporaries. In the 1920s, he sometimes dusted his face with a pale green powder. Virginia Woolf noted in her diary that she wondered if he painted his lips, while art critic Clive Bell described him as looking interesting and cadaverous. Some biographers, such as Peter Ackroyd, believe Eliot was trying to reinvent himself by adopting a modern, avant-garde persona distinct from his conventio