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Much of this I did not understand, but when I did get a glimpse of the message, it was very powerful.
Quotes:
What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow...
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water.
His vanity requires no response, And makes a welcome of indifference.
Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings k ...more
Quotes:
What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow...
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water.
His vanity requires no response, And makes a welcome of indifference.
Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings k ...more

T. S. Eliot periodically blows my mind and saves my life. I should've been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floor of silent seas.
...more


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