This character recalls, "I fumbled to the window to experience the world" and states, "I have heard my Madness chatter before day," towards the end of a mostly excised passage
This character recalls, "I fumbled to the window to experience the world" and states, "I have heard my Madness chatter before day," towards the end of a mostly excised passage called his "Pervigilium." This character describes "voices dying with a dying fall" and has a brief vision of "lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows" before describing a frightening vision of the "eternal Footman" holding his coat. This character compares himself to John the Baptist, Lazarus, and Prince Hamlet in succession after announcing, "I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas." This character opens with the line, "Let us go then, you and I." For 10 points, name this aging title character of a dramatic monologue by T. S. Eliot called his "Love Song."