A few lines from this work were cannibalized from its poet's earlier work, "Death of St. Narcissus.
A few lines from this work were cannibalized from its poet's earlier work, "Death of St. Narcissus." One character is a "typist home at teatime" who meets with her lover, then "puts a record on the gramaphone." In this work, some pills a woman took "to bring it off" made her teeth fall out, and Alfred gives her money for dentures. This work describes a figure who was "once tall and handsome as you," a drowned Phoenician sailor named Phlebas with pearls for eyes mentioned earlier by the "wisest woman in Europe," Madame Sosostris, who issues the warning "Fear death by water." For 10 points, this is what five-part work whose first part, "The Burial of the Dead," begins "April is the cruelest month" and was written by T.S. Eliot?
A few lines from this work were cannibalized from its poet's earlier work, "Death of St. Narcissus.
The Waste Land