Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Centenary …

… The Waste Land at 100 | Jason M. Baxter | First Things. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Eliot at one hundred is still shocking. Although he wrote before the digital and personal computing revolutions, cheap air travel, and mobile phones, he nevertheless lived in a world that was qualitatively like ours, even if quantitatively it would continue to accelerate.

 

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