found this heavily annotated beautiful beautiful copy at a used books’ store
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We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
-- T.S. Elliot
(Bistrița, Romania)
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"For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning." ~ T.S. Eliot
Max Deacon and Jenna Thiam in The Collection (2016)
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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
~T.S. Eliot
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so I finally picked up The Secret History... When it came to April I wrote in the margins 'April is the cruellest month' and later realised they murdered Bunny in April. I really hope Donna Tartt wrote the book with 'The Waste Land' in mind and it's not just my brain reading too much into it.
Also, 'Winter kept us warm, covering / Earth in forgetful snow'. 'Forgetful snow' can be prescribed to the farmer's death which was soon forgotten. And 'Winter kept us warm' - Henry's last name is literally Winter and he did keep Richard warm after he returned from Rome, and it was during winter he became a lot closer with the gang and the friendship deepened after he knew the circumstances regarding the farmer's death.
My 4am thoughts are really all over the place.
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T. S. Eliot
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Instagram: johnp.shanley
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We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
-- T.S. Eliot
(Copenhagen, Denmark)
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There will be time, there will be time
to prepare a face to meet the faces
that you meet.
(T S Eliot, The love song of J Alfred Prufrock)
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One of the great Eliot poems.
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