A note about this person cites a passage of "great anthropological interest" from Ovid after describing him as "a mere spectator and not indeed a 'character'" who is "yet the most important personage in the poem." This person first speaks, "At the violet hour, when the eyes and back turn upward from the desk," and watches a "typist home at tea-time." He claims to have "foresuffered all" and "walked among the lowest of the
A note about this person cites a passage of "great anthropological interest" from Ovid after describing him as "a mere spectator and not indeed a 'character'" who is "yet the most important personage in the poem." This person first speaks, "At the violet hour, when the eyes and back turn upward from the desk," and watches a "typist home at tea-time." He claims to have "foresuffered all" and "walked among the lowest of the dead" in a poem in which he sees an "Unreal City." This personage from "The Fire Sermon" describes himself as an old man with wrinkled female breasts" in a poem which ends "Shantih shantih shantih." For 10 points, name this narrator of much of T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land," a gender-switching seer.
A note about this person cites a passage of "great anthropological interest" from Ovid after describing him as "a mere spectator and not indeed a 'character'" who is "yet the most important personage in the poem.