Wasteland: The Dirty Truth About What We Throw Away, Where It Goes, and Why It Matters

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Hugh Kenner, one of the great scholars of Modernism, explained this element well, arguing how the line evokes: “the manner in which Shakespeare, Homer, and the drawings of Michelangelo, Raphael, and the Magdalenian draughtsmen coexist in the contemporary cultivated consciousness: fragments, familiar quotations: poluphloisboio thalasse, to be or not to be, undo this button, one touch of nature, etc.

Developers originally made the game for the Apple II and it was ported to the Commodore 64 and MS-DOS. Ellmann notes: "Pound warned Eliot that since Pope had done the couplets better, and Joyce the defecation, there was no point in another round. A few reviews complained that it was overly descriptive or overly written and I agree there were a few spots of that, but the overall story was just so compelling I could look past that.Let me go straight to the heart of the matter, fling my poor little hand on the table, and say what I think The Waste Land is about. The political history of North Carolina is examined throughout, as the North Carolina General Assembly is a major player in the stories of these lawsuits. Consequently, there are outworks and blind alleys all over the poem—obstacles which are due to the nature of the central emotion, and are not to be charged to the reader.

At the beginning of 'The Fire Sermon' in one version, there was a lengthy section in heroic couplets, in imitation of Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock. Some of these notes are helpful in interpreting the poem, but some are arguably even more puzzling, and many of the most opaque passages are left unannotated.

Not only the title, but the plan and a good deal of the incidental symbolism of the poem were suggested by Miss Jessie L. John [Hughes - one of the lawyers fighting Smithfield] wades through court record and finds the contract. I picked this up from the library thinking it would be like one of Addison’s previous novels, which I really loved. In Coppola's Apocalypse Now, Brando's Kurtz has copies of Weston's From Ritual to Romance and Frazer's The Golden Bough, two of Eliot's sources for the poem; he also quotes Eliot's " The Hollow Men".

Phlebas is connected not only to the tarot cards of Madame Sosostris but also to Ferdinand from The Tempest and the Smyrna merchant Mr. Rather than the freedom to sit on their porch with clothes drying on a line, the plaintiffs in these suits were forced indoors as actual hog waste was sprayed into their air (and homes and occasionally well water…) by corporate farmers attempting to eliminate a problem that could have been handled by a multitude of more “neighborly” methods. They did a tremendous service to others in our state, and deserve all the high praise contained in WASTELANDS.I am not normally a nonfiction reader but this book drew me in to the cause that a Northern Michigan girl would never have considered. There were also a number of lowbrow references in the opening section of Eliot's original manuscript (when the poem was entitled He Do The Police in Different Voices), but they were removed from the final draft after Eliot cut this original opening section. It enacted a law that described the cases, in a "whereas" clause in the text of the bill itself, as "frivolous. In 1971, Faber and Faber published a "facsimile and transcript" of the original drafts, edited and annotated by Valerie Eliot.