Posted by alexandra_k on August 20, 2005, at 19:01:21
In reply to Re: pact » Declan, posted by alexandra_k on August 20, 2005, at 18:42:04
And I just love...
T.S. Elliot.
Possibly because he was a philosopher too
(Wrote a PhD on Bradley)"The Wasteland" was great...
"Four Quartets" is a masterpeace
"The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock" is my favourite poem :-)And... He wrote brilliant plays too :-)
I got into plays...
I read the End of the Road... There was a character there (Jack Horner - little jack horner that sat in the corner...) who had a touch of paralysis. he would get to thinking... and be unable to act.
he goes to see this (dodgey / brilliant) doctor / psychiatrist / crank who prescribes arbitrary principles for action:
e.g., if the alternatives present themselves side by side choose the one on the left
if the alternatives present themselves in sequence choose the first
(unfortunately there are no meta-principles of what to do when they conflict...)anyways... he has to read the world almanac. because it is filled with facts. and sometimes paralysis can result when we do not know the answer.
he isn't allowed to read anything but the almanac and plays plays plays
action!
plays are supposed to help cure his inactionand so...
i tried it for a time myself...
;-)
And then of course...
He wrote the poems that were turned into the musical "Cats"
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