Posted by alexandra_k on August 14, 2018, at 6:48:51
In reply to Re: Paul Jay, posted by sigismund on August 11, 2018, at 1:59:35
> >i didn't ask to be born.
> Maybe that is what Eliot meant?
> 'Let us go then, you and I'.
Oh, my, I haven't heard that in a while. I used to know... Most of it.
With the ... evening(?) spread out against the sky
Like a patient anesthetised upon a table....
Let us go through certain half deserted streets
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights
In one night cheap hotels
With sawdust on the floors and oyster shells....
And something about mermaids underneath the sea...
(That always got me thinking of 'not waving but drowning' by Stevie Smith
...
And a disconnect of meaning.
What made you think of it, I wonder.
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