A few weeks ago, I preached a sermon about Four Quartets in which I made the point that Eliot is writing about an experience that is impossible to write about (thank you Anita) with the shabby equipment of words. But in attempting to write about that experience, he's trying to evoke that very same experience in the … Continue reading Eliot in the bardo
T. S.Eliot
Hit by a book: East Coker 4
What amazing luck. Or misfortune. For the lot to fall to me, the coincidence, to get to comment on this particular movement of this our second Quartet. Me, a preacher (again), me a Calvinist. It seems like a tee shot here. What do I mean? Well, this is Eliot in a way finally being a … Continue reading Hit by a book: East Coker 4
